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Printed for the War Cabinet. January 1919.
SECRKT.
E.C., 47th Minutes.
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WAR CABINET.
p:astern committee.
Minutes of a Meeting of the Committee held in Lord Gurzon s Room at the Privy
Council Office, on Thursday, December 26, 1918, at 12 noon.
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.,
M.P., Secretary of State for Foreign
Affairs.
The Right Hon. *E. S. Montagu, M.P.,
Secretary of State for India.
The following
The Right Hon. Sir Louis Mallet,
G.C.M.G. [Knight] Grand Cross of [the Order of] St Michael and St George (accolade). , C.B., Foreign Office.
Mr. L. Oliphant, C.M.G., Foreign Office.
Lieutenant - General Sir G. M. W.
Macdonogh, K.C.M.G., C.B., Adjutant-
General to the Forces.
Lieutenant - Colonel W. H. Gribbon,
C.M.G., War Office.
The Right Lion. Lord Robert Cecil,
K.C., M.P., Assistant Secretary of
State for Foreign Affairs.
also attended :
Sir A. Hirtzel, K.C.B., Assistant Under
secretary of State for India.
Mr. J. E. Shuckburgh, C.B., 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. .
Lieutenant - General Sir H. V. Cox,
K.C.B., K.C.M.G., C.S.I., Military
Secretary, 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. .
Mr. R. Mowat.
Lieutenant-Colonel L. Storr, Secretary.
Middle Eastern
Questions:
Arabia.
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1. WITH reference to Minutes 2 and 3 of the 44th Meeting,
the Chairman invited the Committee to examine the question of the
various Arab States and chieftains whose case had not received indi
vidual consideration at previous meetings when the future settlement
of Arabia had been discussed. Various papers by the Departments
concerned, reviewing briefly the history of our relations with several
chieftains, and our commitments in each case, and suggesting the
lines on which our present policy should be framed, had been
circulated (E.C.-2201, 2207, 2214, 2302, 2340, 2350, 2412, 2454,
2467, 2525, and 2599).
The Chairman then successively reviewed the situation in
regard to, and our present relations with, the Sultan of Sher and
Mokallah, the Sultan of Lahej, the tribes of the Aden Protectorate,
the Sultan of Muscat, the trucial chiefs of the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. , the
Sheikhs of El Katr, Bahrein, Koweit, and Mohammerah, Ibn Saud,
I bn Rashid, the Idrisi, the Imam of Sanaa, the Sheikh of Mavia,
and the possession of Sheikh Said.
A general discussion followed, in the course of which Lord
Robert Cecil informed the Committee that a draft treaty (from
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