Sir Ronald Storrs and Abdul Baha

Sir Ronald Storrs was a British colonial administrator and diplomat who served as the first British governor of Jerusalem during the British Mandate period in Palestine. He was known for his pro-Zionist views and his close relationship with prominent Zionist leaders, including Chaim Weizmann and David Ben-Gurion.

Storrs was sympathetic to the Zionist cause and believed in the establishment of a Jewish homeland in Palestine. He played a key role in promoting Jewish immigration to Palestine and supporting the development of Jewish institutions and infrastructure in the region. He worked closely with them to advance their goals in Palestine during his time as governor of Jerusalem.

In his memoirs (page 337) he states:

I renewed in Haifa my friendship with Abbas Effendi Abd al-Baha’ and his Bahai followers, whom I had last seen imprisoned in Acre on my visit in 1909. I found him sitting in spotless white, noble as a prophet of Michael Angelo. He placed at my disposal the training and talents of his community, one or two of whom I appointed to positions of confidence which they still continue to deserve.

at other place in the same book (page 328) he writes:

Many of the leading merchants, realizing how greatly the future prosperity of Jerusalem depended upon its preservation as Jerusalem (and not an inferior Kieff, Manchester or Baltimore), subscribed liberally to our funds; and in Egypt, England and America, Moslems, Christians and Jews, suspicious of any creed, culture or policy other than their own, gave gladly to a Jerusalem which represented all three. I realized then the power of the name of Jerusalem; I realized it even more afterwards when appealing for other countries or causes. I became, I am happy to believe, a convincing and successful Schnorrer. (Yiddish for a professional beggar.) My subscription list, of cheques ranging from £3 to £600, included from Cairo the names of Smouha and Btesh, the Syrian Community, and the editor of the Mokattam; in Jerusalem the Anglo-Egyptian Bank, Sir Abbas Effendi Abd al-Baha, the Mufti, several Jewish firms, the Imperial Ottoman Bank, the Crédit Lyonnais, the Anglo-Palestine Bank, the Banco di Roma, the 51st Sikh Regiment, the Zionist Commission, the Municipality, and the Administration; in Europe and America, Lord Milner, Sir Basil Zaharoff, Lord Northcliffe, Sir Alfred Mond, Mrs Holman Hunt, Mrs Carnegie, Messrs Pierpont Morgan, and Messrs Kuhn, Loeb. I found institutions more generous than individuals, and (especially in America) men than women.

He also mentions and writes about Ruhi (Husayn Ruhi) as "My Bahai Persian secret agent." in his other book "Lawrence of Arabia - Zionism and Palestine".