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Papers of the War Cabinet's Eastern Committee [35r] (69/544)
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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Committee were all agreed that in the present circumstances no
immediate assistance could be given to Sir P. Sykes. That being
the case, in his opinion negotiations offered the only solution.
The Committee decided that—
The War Office should telegraph to the Commander-in-Chief
m India, asking for his comments on Sir P. Sykes’s
telegram, of the 3rd June, and that his reply to War
Office telegram about the despatch of two battalions to
Bundar Abbas should be awaited.
Propaganda in
Mesopotamia.
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3. Mr. Montagu said that his Department had addressed the
War Office on the 5th June on the subject of the proposed
deputation of Mr. Percival Landon to Mesopotamia on behalf of
the Ministry of Information. The letter stated that, whatever
view might be taken of Mr. Landon’s personal qualifications, the
question should first be decided whether it was desirable, on broad
grounds of policy, that such delicate and important questions as
those mentioned in the early part of War Office telegram No. 58581,
dated the 18th May, 1918, to the G.O.C. Mesopotamia, should be
ventilated in the Public Press. The letter further stated that in
the opinion of the Secretary of* State for India, the project should
not be proceeded v\ ith until it had been referred to the Eastern
Committee.
Mr. Montagu said that he thought that there was considerable
danger to be apprehended from the activity of propagandists in
Persia at present.
The Chairman said that Mr. Landon had accompanied the
expedition which had been sent to Thibet when he (Lord Curzon)
had been Viceroy of India. Judging from his experience on that
occasion, Mr. Landon would be a quite trustworthy person to send.
Mr. Shuckburgh informed the Committee that Sir Percy Cox
did not wish Mr. Landon to visit Mesopotamia for propaganda.
General Macdonogh stated that the Minister of Information
did not want Mr. Landon to go to Mesopotamia for definite
propagandist purposes, but merely to collect material for his
Department so that suitable arrangements could be made, if and
when it was decided to start a propaganda there.
The Chairman thought that as Sir P. Cox was opposed to
Mr. Landon’s going, the matter should be dropped for the present.
(Initialled) C. of K,
2, Whitehall Gardens, S. IF. 1,
June 6, 1918.
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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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- Papers of the War Cabinet's Eastern Committee
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- 1r:214v, 216r:272v
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