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Miscellaneous papers on the Near and Middle East [2v] (4/70)
The record is made up of 1 file (35 folios). It was created in 2 Feb 1916-18 Aug 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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7. That Great Britain has the right to build, administer, and be sole owner of a
railway connecting Haifa with area (B), and that Great Britain shall have a perpetual
right to transport troops along such a line at all times.
8. For a period of twenty years the existing Turkish customs tariff shall remain
in force throughout the whole of the Blue and Red areas, as well as in areas (A)
and (B), and no increase in the rates of duty or conversion from ad valorem to specific
rates shall be made except by agreement between the two Powers.
There shall be no interior customs barriers between any of the above-mentioned
areas. The customs duties leviable on goods destined for the interior shall be
collected at the port of entry, and handed over to the administration of the area of
destination.
9. It shall be agreed that the French Government will at no time enter into any
negotiations for the cession of their rights, and will not cede such rights in the Blue
area to any third Power, except the Arab State or Confederation of Arab States,
without the previous agreement of His Majesty’s Government, who on their part will
give a similar undertaking to the French Government regarding the Red area.
10. The British and French Governments, as the protectors of the Arab State,
shall agree that they will not themselves acquire, and will not consent to a third Power
acquiring territorial possessions in the Arabian peninsula, nor consent to a third
Power constructing a naval base on the islands or the east coast of the Red Sea. This,
however, shall not prevent such adjustment of the Aden frontier as may be necessary
in consequence of recent Turkish aggression.
11. The negotiations with the Arabs as to the boundaries of the Arab State or
Confederation of Arab States shall be continued through the same channel as heretofore
on behalf of the two Powers.
12. It is agreed that measures to control the importation of arms into the Arab
territories will be considered by the two Governments.
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The file contains correspondence, memoranda, notes, and a map concerning various aspects of the post-First World War settlement of the Near and Middle East. The file covers the discussion around the Sykes-Picot Agreement (also known as the Asia Minor Agreement; see folios 1-3) and the settlement of other Arab territories, the future of Constantinople, the need to protect the Trans-Caucasus (Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan) from the Bolshevik advance, the peace settlement with Turkey, and Persian claims at the Paris Peace Conference in 1919.
Correspondence is between George Curzon and officials at the War Office, Foreign Office, League of Nations, and various political and diplomatic offices in the region concerned. The file also contains some pages of manuscript notes by Curzon himself.
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- 1 file (35 folios)
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The file is arranged in rough chronological order, from the front to the back.
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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 35, 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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- Miscellaneous papers on the Near and Middle East
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- 2r:3v
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