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Printed for the War Cabinet, August 1918.
SECRET.
E.C. 22nd Minutes,
WAR CABINET.
EASTERN COMMITTEE.
Minutes of a Meeting of the Eastern Committee held in Lord Curzon s Loom at the Privy
Council Office on Monday, July 29, 1918, at 5 p.m.
Present:
The Right Non. the Earl Curzon of Kedlestox, K.G.,
(in the Chair).
G.aS.L, G.C.I.E.
The Right Hon. Lokd Robert Cecil, K.C.,
M.P., Assistant Secretary of State for
Foreign Affairs (representing the Secre
tary of State for Foreign Affairs).
The Right Hon. the Ford Hardinge of
Pensiiukst, 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.
Mr. L. Oltphant, C.M.G., Foreign Office.
The Right Hon. E. S. Montagu, M.P.,
Secretary of State for India.
Mr. J. E. Shuckburgh, C.B., India Office.
General Sir H. H. Wilson, K.C.B.,
K.C.M.G., D.S.O., Chief of the Imperial
General Staff.
Major-General Sir G. M. W. M acdonogh,
K.C.M.G., C.B., Director of Military
Intelligence.
Lieutenant-Colonel L. Storr, Secretary.
Anglo-French
Agreement of
RUG:
French Adviser in
Syria.
I. THE Chairman said that at their 21 st Meeting (MinuteS)
the Committee had decided that a telegram should he sent to
General Allenby asking his opinion as to the steps that would
require to he taken to meet French views in the event of his forces
advancing into Syria; and that the Secretary of State for Foreign
Affairs should be asked to sound M. Camhon tentatively, on the
subject of Syria, on receipt of General Allenby’s reply. That reply
bad now been received, and was as follows (E.C.-953):—
“ The civil administration of any occupied territory must
be included in military administration, as is that of Palestine
now, during the period of active military operations. In event
of my troops occupying part of Syrian areas which are regarded
as of special interest to France, I shall be ready to accept,
subject to my supreme authority, French advice and assistance
in regard to purely administrative affairs so long as they do not
conflict with military requirements. I should be glad if you
could inform me what are areas in Syria which are regarded as
of special interest to France. Are they those defined m Sykes-
Picot Agreement ? ”
This telegram, the Chairman thought, showed that General Allenby
was prepared to accept the Committee’s suggestion in quite the
right spirit.