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Papers on British policy and the Arab movement [155r] (313/380)
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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ment have agreed, on their part, that these ports shall be free for French and Italian
^4rade with the Blue Area and Areas A and B.
(c.) France has agreed (No. 11, Article 7) that Great Britain may build, administer,
and be sole owner of a railway from Haifa to Bagdad, and that she shall have a
perpetual right to transport troops along such a line at all times.
(d.) In the Brown Area, " Great Britain, France (No. 11, Article 3\ and provisionally
Italy (No. 12, Article 3) have agreed that an “international administration ” shall be
established, the form of which shall be decided upon in consultation with the other
Allies and the representatives of King Husein.
(e.) Moslem Holy Places in Palestine (i.e., the Mosque of Omar, and Abraham’s
Tomb at Hebron, the latter of which is excluded from the Brown Area) are implicitly
included in the Government of India’s proclamation (No. 4).
(/.) His Majesty’s Government have conveyed (No. 13) to the Zionist Federation
the statement that “ they view with favour the establishment in Palestine of a national
home for the Jewish people, and will use their best endeavours to facilitate the
achievement of this object, it being clearly understood that nothing shall be done which
may prejudice the civil and religious rights of existing non-Jewish communities in
Palestine or the rights and political status enjoyed by Jews in any other country.”
(g.) The draft proclamation prepared for General Allenby’s entry into Jerusalem
was not issued officially, either on that occasion or subsequently, but it has been
published in the English press, and was referred to in the statement of British policy
issued by the Foreign Office on the 11th June, 1918, in reply to a memorial from Syrians
resident in Egypt.
IV.— Summary.
(i.) European Turkey and
Anatolia
Peninsula that forms most of modern-day Turkey.
: Free hand in Constantinople and on the
littoral of the Straits; commitments to Italy in
Anatolia
Peninsula that forms most of modern-day Turkey.
(No. 12).
(ii.) Black Sea Straits : Free hand.
(iii.) Dodekannese : Commitment to Italy (No. 7).
(iv.) Cyprus : Commitment to France (No. 11).
(v.) Armenia: Commitments under Treaty of Berlin (No. 3) and to France
(No. 11 j and Italy (No. 12) in parts; in remainder, free hand.
(vi.) Arab Countries in General and Kurdistan : Commitments under the
“ fuglements organiques ” of the Lebanon Vilayet (Nos. 1 and 2) and to
various independent Arab rulers, King Husein (No. 9), France (No. 11),
and Italy conditionally (No. 12).
(vii.) Arab Federation : Free hand.
(viii.) Caliphate : Free hand.
(ix.) Arabian Peninsula, excluding Hejaz : Commitments to various independent
Arab rulers. King Husein (No. 9), France (No. 11), and Italy (No. 12).
(x.) Hejaz: Commitments to King Husein (No. 9), France (No. 11), and Italy
(No. 12), and (regarding Holy Places) to Moslem world (No. 4).
(xi.) Mesopotamia: Commitments to King Husein (No. 9), France (No. 11),
Notables of Basra Vilayet, Sheikhs of Koweit (No. 5) and Mohammerah,
Bin Saud, Moslem world (No. 4) as regards Moslem Holy Places in
general, Persia as regards Shia Holy Places in particular.
(xii.) Kurdistan : Commitments in parts to King Husein and France; in parts
free hand.
(xiii.) Syria: Commitments under “ Beglements organiques” of the Lebanon
(Nos. 1 and 2), and to King Husein (No. 9) and France (No. 11).
(xiv.) Palestine: Commitments to King Husein (No. 9), France (No. 11), Italy
(No. 12), the Moslem world regarding Moslem Holy Places (No. 4), and
the Zionist Federation (No. 13).
* The Brown Area covers practically all the
few square miles at either extremity.
[920—1]
rest of -Palestine west of Jordan, with the exception of a
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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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