 McMahon despatched the oriental secretary, Storrs to London with a team of intelligence experts.The British decision to land at the Dardanelles, instead of Alexandretta, and to allow French Syria founded by the Sykes-Picot Agreement to exist at all, irritated McMahon.In 1920, he was awarded the Order of El Nahda, 1st Class, from the King of the Hejaz.