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Papers of the War Cabinet's Eastern Committee [23r] (45/544)
The record is made up of 1 file (272 folios). It was created in 13 Mar 1918-7 Jan 1919. 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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Lord Ourzon. @)
[This Document is the Property-of His Britannic Majesty’s Government.]
Printed -for the War Cabinet. June 1018.
SECRET.
E.C. 10th Minutes.
5
WAR CABINET.
EASTERN COMMITTEE.
Minutes of a Meeting held in Lord Curzons Loom at the Privy Council Office on
Tuesday, May 28, 1918, at 3'15 p.m.
Present:
The Right Hon. the Earl Curzox of Kedleston, K.G., G.C.S.I., G.C.I.E.
(in the Chair).
Lieutenant-General the Right Hon. J.C. I Sir Mark Sykes, Bt., M.P., Foreign
Smuts, K.C.
Office.
The Right Hon. A. J. Balfour, O.M., M.P., The Right Hon. E. S. Montagu, M.P.,
LJ ^ ^^ ^ V f IT' ! A tV * o T . 1 wx /
Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs
The Right Hon. the Lord Hardinge of
Pensuurst, K.G., P.C., G.C.B., G.C.S.I.,
G.C.M.G.
[Knight] Grand Cross of [the Order of] St Michael and St George (accolade).
, G.C.I.E., G.C.V.O., I.S.O.,
Permanent Under-Secretary of State for
Foreign Affairs.
Secretary of State for India (for
Minutes 1 and 2).
Mr. J. E. Shuokburgh,
India Office
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.
General Sir H. H. Wilson, K.C.B.,
K.C.M.G., D.S.O., Chief of the Imperial
General Staff (for Minutes 1 and 2).
Major-General Sir G. M. W. Macdonogh,
K.C.M.G., C.B., Director of Military
Intelligence.
j< Also attended:
The Right Hon. Lord Robert Cecil, K.C., M.P., Minister of Blockade
(for Minutes 1 and 2).
Mr. II. W. Kennard, Foreign Office.
Mr. J. M. Keynes, Treasury.
Lieutenant-Colonel L. Storr, Secretary.
Oirculatiou of
Papers.
[365 —V]
L I he Chairman said that telegrams and papers for considera
tion by the Committee emanated from three Departments : the
Foreign Office, the
India Office
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, and the War Office. These papers
had hitherto been circulated to members in one file, and had not
been arranged by subjects, but merely in chronological order. He
proposed that in future all papers, before circulation, should as far as
possible be grouped together in accordance with their subject
headings for convenience of reference. Some difficulty arose from
the. fact that frequently a flood of important telegrams was received
during the twenty-four hours immediataly preceding a meeting, lie
trusted that the new procedure would succeed in coping with these
drawbacks, and hoped that the Departments concerned would send to
B
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This file is composed of papers produced by the War Cabinet's Eastern Committee, which was chaired by George Curzon for most of its existence. The file contains a complete set of printed minutes, beginning with the committee's first meeting on 28 March 1918, and concluding with its final meeting on 7 January 1919 (ff 6-214 and ff 227-272).
The file begins with two copies of a memorandum by Curzon, dated 13 March 1918, proposing the formation of the Eastern Committee. This is followed by a memorandum by Arthur James Balfour, Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, approving Curzon's proposal, and a copy of a procedure for the newly created committee, outlining arrangements for committee meetings and the dissemination of information to committee members.
Also included is a set of resolutions, passed by the committee in December 1918, in order to guide British representatives at the Paris Peace conference (ff 216-225). The resolutions cover the following: the Caucasus and Armenia; Syria; Palestine; Hejaz and Arabia; Mesopotamia, Mosul, Baghdad and Basra. They are preceded by a handwritten note written by Curzon 'some years later', which remarks on how they are a 'rather remarkable forecast of the bulk of the results since obtained.'
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- 1 file (272 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 272; 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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- 1r:214v, 216r:272v
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