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Printed for the War Cabinet. April 1918.
SECRET.
E.C. 2nd Minutes.
WAR CABINET.
EASTERN COMMITTEE.
Minute* of a Meeting of the Eastern Committee held in Lord Curzons Boom at the
Privy Council Office on Friday, April 5, 1918, at 3 r.M.
Present:
The Right Hon. the Earl Curzox of Kedleston, K.G., G.C.S.I., G.C.I.E.
(m the Chair).
Lieutenant-General the Right Hon. J. C.
Smuts, K.C.
The Right Hon. A. J. Balfour, O.M., M.P.,
Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs.
The Right Hon. Lord Robert Cecil, K.C.,
M.P., Minister of Blockade.
The Right Hon. Lord Islington, G.C.M.G.,
D.S.O., Under-Secretary of State for
India.
Major-General Sir G. M. \\. Macdonogh,
K.C.M.G., C.B., Director of Military-
Intelligence.
Sir Mark Sykes, Bart., M.P. (for Minutes
1 and 2).
Mr. L. Oliphant, C.M.G.
Mr. J. E. Shuckp.urgh.
The following were also present :
Sir R. Graham, K.C.M.G., C.B., Foreign Office.
Mr. Dudley Ward, Treasury.
Captain E. Abraham, Secretary.
Circulation of 1. AT the outset, General Macdonogh requested that the
Agenda. Agenda and relevant papers should be circulated at such time
before the meeting that members should have at least twenty-four
hours to consider them.
The Chairman explained that, as telegrams arrived daily at
frequent intervals, he had thought it better to arrange for the issue
of the Agenda so as to include the latest possible information.
It was agreed, however, that the Secretary should issue the
papers twenty-four hours before the time of meeting. Should
important despatches arrive in the? interval, a supplementary
circulation should, if possible, be arranged.
Action in respect 2. General Macdonogh further requested that Item 3 on the
to Emir Faisal. Agenda should be postponed as there had not been time to consider
the problems raised in telegram No. 1055 from General Clayton
(E.C. 66).
Sir Mark Sykes concurred, and it was agreed that the Depart
ments concerned should inform the Secretary when they were ready
for the question to be discussed.
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