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File 53/1915 Part IV 'German War: Turkey; Caliphate etc' [16r] (28/481)
The record is made up of 1 item (242 folios). It was created in 1915-1916. 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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1916
No. 83.
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Residency
An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, established in the provinces and regions considered part of, or under the influence of, British India.
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Cairo.
April 19th. 1916.
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Sir,
I have the honour to forward a Memorandum, prepared
by the Arab Bureau on the Arab question as relating
to the Sherif of Mecca and other Arab parties.
This it is hoped will serve to explain the position
in which we find ourselves today vis A vis the Arab
parties. Read in conjunction with papers, which I pro-
nose to sub lit by next vail on the subject ofi 'those
purely Turkish parties who are now in opposition to the
Committee of Union £nd rogress regime, they will ass
ist to form an appreciation of the present situation
and the attitude which it is desirable we should assume
in the future, in the light of the relations now exist
ing between the various parties interested in the fate
of the Ottoman Kmpire.
It is hoped, further, that it will be clear from
the statements that undue insistemce on any p- rtlcilar
programme of final solution, and still nore tho pre
mature divulgenos to the Arabs of such a programme may
act deleteriously on the present state of comparative
quiescence in which this question now is and on the
joint interests of the Allies.
Ii should be observed that no guarantees which could
give
Right Honourable,
Sir inward Grey, Bart.,«C.Q.
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etc
etc
etc.
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Part 4 consists of correspondence relating to the possible declaration of a caliphate in Arabia and is a continuation of part 3 (IOR/L/PS/10/525/1). The papers tell of the British assessment of the situation and the French attitude, as well as correspondence and negotiations with Ḥusayn bin ‘Alī al-Hāshimī, the Grand Sharif of Mecca. The file also discusses the British view of the proposed blockade of the Arabian ports in the Red Sea.
The file also includes a printed document (ff 25-242) marked 'secret' entitled 'Policy in the Middle East', which consists mainly of communications on the military situation in Mespotamia from Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Mark Sykes to the Director of Military Information.
The discussion over such matters is mostly between Sir Arthur Henry McMahon, the General Officer Commanding, Egypt, and the Commander-in-Chief, India.
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The papers are arranged in approximate chronological order from the rear to the front.
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- File 53/1915 Part IV 'German War: Turkey; Caliphate etc'
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- 3r:14v, 15ar, 15r:65v, 72r:78v, 80v:125v, 129r:129v, 131r:172v, 179r:184v, 188r:188v, 190r:196r, 198r:203r, 204v:242v
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