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SECRET.
E.C. 44th Minutes.
WAR CABINET.
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EASTERN COMMITTEE.
Minutes of a Meeting of the Eastern Committee held in Lord Curzons Room at the
Privy Council Office, on Wednesday, December 18, 1918, at 3 p.m.
Present:
The Right Hon. the Earl Curzon of Kedleston, K.G., G.C.S.I., G.C.I.E.
{in the Chair).
The Right Hon. A. J. Balfour, O.M.,
Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs.
The Right Hon. E. S. Montagu, Secretary
of State for India.
The following
The Right Hon. Sir Louis Mallet, (
G.C.M.G., C.B., Foreign Office.
Mr. L. Oliphant, C.M.G., Foreign Office.
Sir A. Hirtzel, K.C.B., Assistant Under- |
Secretary of State for India.
Sir A. H. Grant, K.C.I.E., C.S.I., Foreign
Secretary to the Government of India.
Mr. J. E. Shuckburuh, C.B., India Office.
Lieutenant-General Sir H. V. Cox, K C.B.,
K.C.M.G., C.S.I., Military Secretary, j
India Office.
The Right Hon. Lord Robert Cecil, K.C.,
Assistant Secretary of State for Foreign
Affairs.
General Sir H. H. Wilson, K.C.B., D.S.O.,
Chief of the Imperial General Staff.
also attended:
Lieutenant-General Sir G. M. W. Mao-
donogh, K.C.M.G., C.B., Adjutant-
General to the Forces.
Major-General W. Tftwaites.C.B., Director
of Military Intelligence.
Lieutenant-Colonel W. H. Gribbon, O.M.G.,
War Office.
Mr. J. M. Keynes, C.B., Treasury (for
Minute 5).
Sir Henry Erle Richards, K.C.S.I., K.C.
Mr. R. Mow at.
Lieutenant-Colonel L. Storr, Secretary. 1
Middle Eastern
Questions :
President Wilson's
Visit and the
Imperial War
Cabinet.
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1. The Chairman said since the Committee last met it had been
arranged that the President of the United States should visit
England in the course of the fodowing week. In view of this
it had been decided at the War Cabinet that morning to hold
a series of Imperial War Cabinet Meetings, in order to cover the
ground and to arrive at decisions among ourselves in regard to
certain important questions, e.g., the League of Nations, disarma
ment, indemnities, the future of the German colonies, and the future
of Mesopotamia, Syria, Palestine, and Constantinople. The question
of Constantinople, which was Near East, did not come strictly
within the Committee’s purview. He had, therefore, asked the
Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs if the latter wished that the
Committee should discuss Constantinople, and Mr. Balfour had
replied that he would be glad if they would do so. He would,
accordingly, invite the Committee, at a future Meeting, to examine
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