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Papers on British policy and the Arab movement [151r] (305/380)
The record is made up of 1 file (187 folios). It was created in 1 Jul 1916-7 Dec 1918. It was written in English and French. 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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[This Document is the Property ^of His Britannic Majesty’s Govemmeatj
SECRET. Political Intelligence Department,
i
Foreign Office.
Special I.
MEMORANDUM
respecting
THE SETTLEMENT OF TURKEY AND THE ARABIAN PENINSULA.
[Maps illustrating this Memorandum issued separately.]
1. THIS paper is divided into three parts: (A) “Commitments,” in which a
summary is given of treaties, agreements, and understandings at present binding
upon His Majesty’s Government; (B) “ Desiderata,” in which the lines of settlement
necessary or desirable in British interests are sketched out; and (C) “ Policy,” in which
suggestions are put forward for the revision of “commitments” in the direction of
“ desiderata,” if and when opportunities offer in the course of negotiations.
2. The first part deals mainly with questions of fact, the second with aims, and the
third with action, and it has therefore seemed convenient to keep them distinct.
3. The problems of Ottoman finance have been dealt with separately,^' and in regard
to the questions of Constantinople, the Black Sea Straits, the Dodekannese, Cyprus,
and the Italian claims in
Anatolia
Peninsula that forms most of modern-day Turkey.
, reference should also be made to the series of
memoranda dealing with the settlement of Southern and South-Eastern Europe.
* See memoranda printed for the Treasury in 1916, 1917, and 1918, and annexes to memoranda dealing-
with the settlement of Southern and South-Eastern Europe (section on European Turkey).
[920—1]
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This file contains correspondence, memoranda, maps, manuscript notes, and other papers relating to the political and territorial settlement of parts of the Middle East following the First World War. Many of the papers were collected for the attention of the Middle East Committee (later named the Eastern Committee, following the mergence of the Foreign Office's Russia Committee and the interdepartmental Persia Committee) of the War Cabinet. Contributors include officials from the War Office, Foreign Office, Admiralty, and 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. , as well as indivduals such as Lieutenant-Colonel Thomas Edward Lawrence. Correspondence comes from representatives of the French and Italian governments as well as British officials in Cairo and other parts of the Middle East.
The papers deal with plans for the region presuming and following an Allied victory in the First World War and take into consideration the imperial ambitions of the victorious European Powers (France, Italy, Russia, Britain, and the United States) and the multitudinous commitments made by the British to various groups. The plans are based on evolving agreements rooted in the Sykes-Picot, or Asia Minor, Agreement between the British and French of 1916. Regions under consideration include the Hejaz (sometimes written Hedjaz), Syria, Northern Iraq, Southern Iraq, Palestine, Armenia, Turkey, the Idrisi state, Yemen, Persia, and Afghanistan. Various matters are covered in the file, but particular focus is given to plans for the Sherifian family of the Hejaz, led by King Husein [Ḥusayn bin ‘Alī al-Hāshimī], which impacted upon policy in Mesopotamia, Syria, Palestine, and the Arabian Peninsula. Other matters include the situation between Jews and Arabs in Palestine, wartime commitments to ruling shaikhs in the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. , the French position in the region, and desiderata of the Government of India for any peace settlement.
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- 1 file (187 folios)
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The file is arranged in chronological order from the front to the back.
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Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the front first page with 1, and terminates at the inside back last page with 187; 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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- Title
- Papers on British policy and the Arab movement
- Pages
- 1ar:1av, 1r:14r, 14r:14v, 14v, 22r:59v, 62r:98r, 99v:120v, 125r:133v, 136r:165r, 166r:167r, 167av, 168r:173r, 175r:176v, 178r:187v
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- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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