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'Records and papers of the 5 Committees on the Near and Middle East' [21r] (41/110)
The record is made up of 1 file (55 folios). It was created in 1917-1920?. It was written in English. The original is part of the British Library: India Office The department of the British Government to which the Government of India reported between 1858 and 1947. The successor to the Court of Directors. Records and Private Papers Documents collected in a private capacity. .
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of their representative at Teheran as to what their
policy in Persia in the near future should her
For the present it would appear that three irain
objects should he kept in view*
(1) The appointment of a friendly Government in
Persia, ire r a Government which will he actuated hy
general friendliness to British interests and regard to
British representationsr Preferably this Government
should he that of Vossu^-ed-Dowlehr In any case it
should not he an anti-British or pro-German Government
or a Government whose policy it is to pinprick, thwart
and annoyr Until such a Government is assured there
would seem to he no sufficient reason for making large
concessions.
(2) The security of Persia against Turkish or
German intrigues, and more particularly the entry into
the country of roving hands from the West directed
against tljose parts of Persia which the weakness of
Russian or the absence of Persian troops appear to rend
er particularly open to httack* Without any definite
or recent information the War Office are impressed with
this danger, and with the fear that hands of this nature
might break through the depleted line of Persian de*-
fences between Ispahan and the Caspianr A friendly
Persian Government should he prepared to undertake and
to guarantee the security of this liner To aid them
in this task His Majesty's Government would be prepared
if invited to lend for the duration of the war a fleet
of armoured motor cars with personnel such as has been
recently employed with great advantage on the Russian
frontr
(3) The recognition without further question or
protest of the South Persia Rifles in their present
form and organisation until the end of the ware After
the end of the war^but not before^ His Majesty's
Government
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This file mainly consists of notes and minutes relating to meetings of the Persia Committee between October 1917 and March 1918, covering British policy regarding that country. The file begins with a note by George Curzon, on Foreign Office headed paper, dated 1920 or later, which reads as follows: 'Records and papers of the 5 Committees on the Near and Middle East on which I presided during and after the War, until the creation of a Middle Eastern Department under the Colonial Office.' The note goes on to list the five committees as follows: the Persia Committee, the Mesopotamia Committee (formally known as the Mesopotamian Administration Committee), the Middle East Committee, the Eastern Committee, and the Interdepartmental Conference on the Middle East (Interdepartmental Conference on Middle East Affairs). In fact, as stated above, the enclosed papers relate almost entirely to the Persia Committee.
Also included among the papers are the following: notes by the India Office The department of the British Government to which the Government of India reported between 1858 and 1947. The successor to the Court of Directors. 's Political Department, on the situation in Persia, dated 19 October 1917 (ff 5-9); minutes of an interdepartmental conference held at the Privy Council (over which Curzon presided), dated 31 July 1917 (ff 10-11). In addition, the file contains two items of correspondence: a letter to Curzon from the Secretary of State for India (Joseph Austen Chamberlain), dated 8 June 1917; a copy of a telegram from the Foreign Office to Sir Charles Murray Marling, British Minister at Teheran [Tehran], dated 21 February 1918.
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- 1 file (55 folios)
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The papers are arranged in approximate chronological order from the front to the rear of the file.
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Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the first folio with 1, and terminates at the last folio with 55; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. side of each folio.
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- Mss Eur F112/271
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- 'Records and papers of the 5 Committees on the Near and Middle East'
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- 1r:55v
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