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Printed -for the War Cabinet. June 1018.
SECRET.
E.C. 10th Minutes.
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WAR CABINET.
EASTERN COMMITTEE.
Minutes of a Meeting held in Lord Curzons Loom at the Privy Council Office on
Tuesday, May 28, 1918, at 3'15 p.m.
Present:
The Right Hon. the Earl Curzox of Kedleston, K.G., G.C.S.I., G.C.I.E.
(in the Chair).
Lieutenant-General the Right Hon. J.C. I Sir Mark Sykes, Bt., M.P., Foreign
Smuts, K.C.
Office.
The Right Hon. A. J. Balfour, O.M., M.P., The Right Hon. E. S. Montagu, M.P.,
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Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs
The Right Hon. the Lord Hardinge of
Pensuurst, K.G., P.C., G.C.B., G.C.S.I.,
G.C.M.G., G.C.I.E., G.C.V.O., I.S.O.,
Permanent Under-Secretary of State for
Foreign Affairs.
Secretary of State for India (for
Minutes 1 and 2).
Mr. J. E. Shuokburgh, India Office.
General Sir H. H. Wilson, K.C.B.,
K.C.M.G., D.S.O., Chief of the Imperial
General Staff (for Minutes 1 and 2).
Major-General Sir G. M. W. Macdonogh,
K.C.M.G., C.B., Director of Military
Intelligence.
j< Also attended:
The Right Hon. Lord Robert Cecil, K.C., M.P., Minister of Blockade
(for Minutes 1 and 2).
Mr. II. W. Kennard, Foreign Office.
Mr. J. M. Keynes, Treasury.
Lieutenant-Colonel L. Storr, Secretary.
Oirculatiou of
Papers.
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L I he Chairman said that telegrams and papers for considera
tion by the Committee emanated from three Departments : the
Foreign Office, the India Office, and the War Office. These papers
had hitherto been circulated to members in one file, and had not
been arranged by subjects, but merely in chronological order. He
proposed that in future all papers, before circulation, should as far as
possible be grouped together in accordance with their subject
headings for convenience of reference. Some difficulty arose from
the. fact that frequently a flood of important telegrams was received
during the twenty-four hours immediataly preceding a meeting, lie
trusted that the new procedure would succeed in coping with these
drawbacks, and hoped that the Departments concerned would send to
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