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Printed for the War Cabinet. August 1918.
SECRET.
E.C. 27th Minutes.
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WAR CABINET.
EASTERN COMMITTEE.
Minutes of a Meeting of the Eastern Committee held in Lord Curzon's Room at the I’rivy
Council Office on Tuesday, August 20, 1918, at 3 p.m.
Preseut:
The Right Hou. the Earl Curzon of Kedlf.ston, K.G., G.C.S.I., G.C.I.E.
(in the Chair).
Lieutenant-General the Right Hon. J. 0.
Smuts, K.C.
The Right Hon. Lord Robert Cecil, K.C.,
M.P., Assistant Secretary of State for
Foreign Affairs.
Sir R. Graham, K.C.M.G., C.B. (repre
senting the Permanent Under-Secretary
of State for Foreign Affairs).
Mr. L. Oliphant, C.M.G., Foreign Office.
The following also attended :
Rear-Admiral G. P. W. Hope, C.B. (for Minute 1).
Lieutenant-General Sir H. V. Cox, K.C.M.G., C.B., C.S.L, Military
Secretary, India Office.
Mr. J. M. Keynes, C.B. (for Minutes 1 and 2).
The Right lion. E. S. Montagu, M.T.
Secretary of State for India.
Major-General Sir G. M. W. Macdonogh,
K.C.M.G., C.B., Director of Military
Intelligence (representing the Chief of
the Imperial General Staff).
Lieutenant-Colonel L. Storr, Secretary.
Major the Hon. W. Ormsby-Gore, M.P. (Temporary Deputy Secretary).
Baku. 1. The Chairman said that the present situation at Baku
was still indeterminate. The latest telegrams from Dunsterville,
who was due to arrive there on the 18th instant, had been rather
more reassuring. General Marshall wished to keep Dunsterville for
diplomatic purposes, but. should events take a serious military turn,
he proposed to appoint another military commander.
General Macdonogh said that a telegram had been received from
the Commander-in-Chief in India proposing that the operations of
Dunsterville and Malleson should be co-ordinated by placing them
both under one commander. The Chief of the Imperial General
Staff favoured the proposal, but wished to give it further considera
tion before Hnal decision. His idea was that a Corps Commander
should be detailed by General Marshall for the purpose.
General .Smuts said that he was glad that this proposal, which
meant that everything except the Seistan Cordon would be under
General Marshall, had originated in India. He thought the
suggestion a sound one.