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Papers of the War Cabinet's Eastern Committee [19r] (37/544)
The record is made up of 1 file (272 folios). It was created in 13 Mar 1918-7 Jan 1919. 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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, [Jhis Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government,]
Printed for the War Cabinet. May 101b.
SEC IIKT.
E.C. 8th Minutes.
WAR CABINET.
EASTERN COMMITTEE.
Minutes of a Meeting of the Eastern Committee held in Lord Curzotis Loom at the
Privy Council Office on Friday, May 10, 1918, at 5 p.m.
Present:
The Right Hon. the Earl
Curzon of Kedleston, K.G., G.C.S.I., G.C.I. E.
(in the Chair).
The Right lion. A. J. Balfour, O.M., M.P., ]
Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs.
The Right Hon. the Lord Hardinge of
Penshurst, K.G., P.C., G.C.B., G.O.S.I.,
G.C.M.G.
[Knight] Grand Cross of [the Order of] St Michael and St George (accolade).
, G.C.I.E., G.O.V.O., I.S.O.,
Permanent Under-Secretary of State for
Foreign Affairs.
Sir Mark Sykes, Bart., M.P., Foreign
Office.
Mr. L. Oliphant, C.M.G., Foreign Office.
General Sir H. H. M ilson, K.C.B.,
K.C.M.G., D.S.O., Chief of the Imperial
General Staff.
Major-General Sir G. M. M . Macdonogh,
K.C.M.G., C.B., Director of Military
Intelligence.
Sir Thomas W. Holderness, G.C.B.,
K.C.S.T., representing the Secretary of
State for India.
Mr. J. E. Shuokburgh,
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.
.
Also attended:
Mr. J. M. Keynes, C.B., Treasury.
Captain E. Abraham, Secretary.
Instructions to 1. The Committee had before them a telegram fioni Sii ( .
General Marling, dated the 7th May (E.C.-264).
Guns ter ville. Xhe Chairman explained that General Dunsterville proposed to
send a party of British officers and men to Tabriz, and that this
course was deprecated by Sir C. Marling on the ground that it.
would prove disadvantageous to the Nestorian Christians, u horn \\c
wished to help. The question for the Committee to decide, theie-
fore, was whether this expedition should proceed, in spite of
Sir C. Marling’s views, or whether it should be countermanded.
General Macdonogh, in reply to a question by the Chairman,
stated that General Dunsterville had not initiated action on his own
account, but that the expedition had been suggested by Sir C. Marling
himself. n . .
The Director of Military Intelligence then related m sequence
correspondence that had taken place between himself and Lord
Hardinge, between the War Office and the General Officer Com
manding, Mesopotamia, and between Sir C. Marling and the Foreign
Office. It appeared that as late as 2nd May Sir C. Marling had held
the opinion that European officers should be sent among Nestorian
[365—7]
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This file is composed of papers produced by the War Cabinet's Eastern Committee, which was chaired by George Curzon for most of its existence. The file contains a complete set of printed minutes, beginning with the committee's first meeting on 28 March 1918, and concluding with its final meeting on 7 January 1919 (ff 6-214 and ff 227-272).
The file begins with two copies of a memorandum by Curzon, dated 13 March 1918, proposing the formation of the Eastern Committee. This is followed by a memorandum by Arthur James Balfour, Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, approving Curzon's proposal, and a copy of a procedure for the newly created committee, outlining arrangements for committee meetings and the dissemination of information to committee members.
Also included is a set of resolutions, passed by the committee in December 1918, in order to guide British representatives at the Paris Peace conference (ff 216-225). The resolutions cover the following: the Caucasus and Armenia; Syria; Palestine; Hejaz and Arabia; Mesopotamia, Mosul, Baghdad and Basra. They are preceded by a handwritten note written by Curzon 'some years later', which remarks on how they are a 'rather remarkable forecast of the bulk of the results since obtained.'
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- 1 file (272 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 272; 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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- 1r:214v, 216r:272v
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