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Printed for the Foreign Office. January 1920.
SECRET.
[I.D.C.E., 34th Minutes.]
FOREIGN OFFICE.
INTER-DEPARTMENTAL CONFERENCE ON MIDDLE EASTERN AFFAIRS.
Minutes of a Meeting held at the Foreign Office on Monday, January 12, 1920,
at 4 p.m.
Present:
The Right Hon. Aubten Chamberlain, M.P., Chancellor of the Exchequer
(in the Chair).
The Right Hon. Lord Hardinge of
Penshurst, K.G., G.C.B., G.C.S.L,
G.C.M.G.. &c.. Permanent Under-
Secretary of State, Foreign Office.
Sir Arthur Hirtzel, K.C.B., Assistant
Under-Secretary of State, India Office.
General Sir Alexander Cobbe, V.C.,
E.C.B., Military Secretary, India Office.
Mr. L. Oliphant, C.B., Foreign Office.
Mr. E. Phipps, C.M.G., Foreign Office.
Mr. R. H. Hoare, Foreign Office.
Major R. McDonell, C.B.E., Foreio-n
Office.
Situation in the
Black Sea,
Caucasus, and
North Persia.
The Right Hon. Winston Churchill,
M.P., Secretary of State for War.
Field-Marshal Sir H. H. Wilson, Bart.,
G.C.B., D.S.O., Chief of Imperial
General Staff, War Office.
Major-General Sir Wm. Thwaites,
K.C.M.G., C.B., Director of Military
Intelligence, War Office.
Rear-Admiral Sir Osmond de B. Brock,
K.C.B., K.C.M.G., K.C.V.O., Deputy
Chief of Naval Staff, Admiralty.
Captain Barry Domvile, C.M.G.,
Admiralty.
Air-Commodore J. M. Steel, C.M.G.,
C.B.F., Director, Operations and
Intelligence, Air Ministry.
Major H. W. Young, D.S.O. (Secretary).
THE Conference had before them telegram No. 19 of the
10th January, 1920, from Lord Derby to the Foreign Office, with
the telegrams therein referred to, and the most recent telegrams on
the subject under discussion.
Mr. Austen Chamberlain took the chair at Lord Hardinge’s
request, and said that as tne Conference had been summoned by the
Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs he would ask Lord Hardinge
to open the proceedings by making a brief statement.
Lord Hardinge said that the Conference had met for the purpose
of finding an answer to the question of what measures should be
undertaken by His Majesty’s Government or the Allies to stop the
Bolshevik onslaught on the Caucasian Republics, Persia, and India.
He informed the Conference that the Foreign Office had, on the
same morning, communicated to the Republics of Georgia and
Azerbaijan a de facto recognition which had been unanimously
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