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'Synopsis of our Obligations to our Allies and Others' [136r] (1/18)
The record is made up of 1 file (9 folios, including 3 maps). It was created in 6 Feb 1918. It was written in English. The original is part of the British Library: India Office The department of the British Government to which the Government of India reported between 1858 and 1947. The successor to the Court of Directors. Records and Private Papers Documents collected in a private capacity. .
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fais Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty’s Government.]
Printed for the War Cabinet. February 1918.
SECRET.
G.T.-3917.
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Synopsis of our pbligMiosis to;our Allies
and Others.
(This Synopsis deals only with pledges given by us to foreign Powers
or Nationalities, and not with any obligations into which we
may have entered with our Dominions or with British
commercial firms or companies.)
TO FRANCE
We are bound—
1. By the Pact of London (5th September, 1914), whereby we
undertook not to make peace separately nor to formulate peace terms
without the consent of the other signatory Powers.
2. By the Anglo-French Agreements of April-May1916
(incorrectly called the Sykes-Picot Agreement), under which we
agreed, l< provided the Arabs fulfil the conditions, and that they obtain
the towns of Homs, Hama, Damascus, and Aleppo ’ (N.B. This
reservation is to some extent invalidated by our recent assurance to
the French that we had no intention of departing from the
Agreement), that—
(i.) France should have priority of enterprise and local loans,
and supply advisers and public functionaries in the zone
marked “A” on Map I in return for similar privileges
being accorded to His Majesty’s Government in the zone
marked “ B.” Both the zones were in theory to be
included within the territory ol the future Arab State.
(ii.) France should establish such administration or control as
she should desire to arrange with the Arabs in the blue
area on Map I in return for similar privileges to His
Majesty’s Government in the red area.
(iii) The brown area to be internationalised under a regime to
be decided on after subsequent discussion.
(iv.) We undertook not to cede Cyprus to a third Power
without the consent of France.
(v ) Haiffa, which is attributed to England, to be a free port
and French goods to have free transit through the red
area in return for similar assurances as regards
Alexandretta and transit of British goods through the
blue area. . , ,
(vi.) We also undertook not to acquire, or to consent to a_third
party acquiring, any possessions in the Arabian Pemnsu a
and not to cede to any but the Arab State our rights m
the red area in return for a similar assurance on the
(vii.)
(viii.)
part of France. ^ -n u
We undertook not to push the Bagdad Railway in area
“ B ” north of Samarra until the completion of a railway
from Bagdad to Aleppo, and then only with the con-
currence of France. In return France promised on
similar conditions not to extend the railway m area A
south of Mosul. . .
The existing Turkish customs tariff was to remain m
force throughout the red and blue areas for a period o
twenty years.
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In this document, the author outlines the basic details of agreements, treaties and general obligations which exist between Britain and the following countries and individuals towards the end of the First World War (1914-1918):
- France;
- Italy;
- Russia;
- Roumania [Romania];
- King of Hedjaz;
- Japan;
- China;
- Belgium;
- Serbia;
- Portugal;
- Greece;
- Sweden;
- Holland;
- Switzerland;
- 'the Poles';
- 'the Jews';
- Jugo-Slavs;
- Czecho-Slovaks;
- Albanians;
- Armenians;
- Persia;
- Afghanistan.
The document was printed for the War Cabinet in 1918 by the Foreign Office, and is initialled by 'H G N' whose full name is unknown
Following the synopsis of relations between Britain and other international powers, there is a table between folios 139v-144 which details the 'war aims' of the Americans, British, French, Italians, Russians, Austrians, Germans and Turkish relating to various 'issues', and notes the degree of agreement between the aforementioned countries on these issues. The 'terms' of each country which are noted in the document are often taken from speeches or statements made by their leaders. In the middle of the table are three maps (ff 141-143) which reflect the details of some of the agreements mentioned in the synopsis.
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Foliation: the foliation sequence for this description commences at f 136, and terminates at f 144, as it is part of a larger physical volume; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. side of each folio.
Pagination: the volume also contains an original printed pagination sequence.
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- Title
- 'Synopsis of our Obligations to our Allies and Others'
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- 136r:140v, 144r:144v
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- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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