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'Records and papers of the 5 Committees on the Near and Middle East' [44r] (87/110)
The record is made up of 1 file (55 folios). It was created in 1917-1920?. 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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[This Document is the Property o f His Britannic Majesty's Government, and
should be retur ned to the Foreign Office when done with unless required
tor official use.]
Cypnei telegro;: to Sir c, Marling (Teheran)
i-oreign Office, February 21st, ms, 7.30 pjn.
ho. 104
000
Kis majesty's C-ovemrnent regret that .measures
advocated in your telegram K 0 . 99 of 12th February
might easily develop into a military occupation of
parts of Northern Persia which must be regarded as
out of the question both on material and moral grounds,
^ A military expedition even if of small dimensions
HI i ; T ll G G d 0 S G QU Gilt/1 "" T IlGCG C!C (o1‘ r ? J "o ^ ^ , ,
i ueuusoii/a..e one despatch of lar.^G
reinforcements which could not be spared from other
theatres: while morally such a policy could only, as
pointed out in Government of India's telegram 0 f 16th
February, discredit us by appearing to confirm Persians
worst suspicions of our bad faith and by bringing on us
odium whole Moslem world.
As you are aware from the telegram of 9th
^ee.uary uo one Government of India repeated to you,
ms majesty's Government wnn prepared to withdraw
tmir regular troops from Central Persia in return .for
some pro quo in North West Persia designed in
Uue inijefest,s botil 01 Persia and Great Britain. Such
an object might have been attained by the substitution
of British for Russian officers in the Persian Cossack
Brigade, if that had been found possible.
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This file mainly consists of notes and minutes relating to meetings of the Persia Committee between October 1917 and March 1918, covering British policy regarding that country. The file begins with a note by George Curzon, on Foreign Office headed paper, dated 1920 or later, which reads as follows: 'Records and papers of the 5 Committees on the Near and Middle East on which I presided during and after the War, until the creation of a Middle Eastern Department under the Colonial Office.' The note goes on to list the five committees as follows: the Persia Committee, the Mesopotamia Committee (formally known as the Mesopotamian Administration Committee), the Middle East Committee, the Eastern Committee, and the Interdepartmental Conference on the Middle East (Interdepartmental Conference on Middle East Affairs). In fact, as stated above, the enclosed papers relate almost entirely to the Persia Committee.
Also included among the papers are the following: notes by the 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. 's Political Department, on the situation in Persia, dated 19 October 1917 (ff 5-9); minutes of an interdepartmental conference held at the Privy Council (over which Curzon presided), dated 31 July 1917 (ff 10-11). In addition, the file contains two items of correspondence: a letter to Curzon from the Secretary of State for India (Joseph Austen Chamberlain), dated 8 June 1917; a copy of a telegram from the Foreign Office to Sir Charles Murray Marling, British Minister at Teheran [Tehran], dated 21 February 1918.
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- 1 file (55 folios)
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The papers are arranged in approximate chronological order from the front to the rear of the file.
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Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the first folio with 1, and terminates at the last folio with 55; 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.
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- 'Records and papers of the 5 Committees on the Near and Middle East'
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- 1r:55v
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