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'MESOPOTAMIA: RETURN OF BAGHDADI OFFICERS & FAMILIES FROM SYRIA' [47r] (104/325)
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Draft Paper.
Foreign Office,
^0.114-S. of 23rd December, ’20
Mo.ll3-S. ” ” w
/
Department.
I am directed by the Secretary of
State for India to transmit, for the
informatjon of the Secretary of State
for Foreign Affairs, copies of the
marginally no ted tele grams received
from the High Commissioner, Mesopotamia,
regarding the alleged encouragement of
anti-British activities by the French
authorities in Syria.
Mr. Secretary Montagu would be
glad to learn whether, if Earl Cur son of
Kedleston is in a position’to corroborate
the report communicated by Sir P. Cox,
he woul d to approach the
French Government with a view to
inviting their cooperation in the
suppression of the mischievous
activities of the individuals referred
to. An alternative course would be to
reserve this and similar information for
future use in the event of the selection
of a ruler for Mesopotamia to whom the
French may consider themselves entitled
to object. Looking at the question in
its wider aspects, however, and bearing
in mind the paramount importance of
sympathetic cooperation between the
French and British Governments in the
Middle East, M r. Montagu is inclined
to recommend that the opportunity might
10 2054—2
20t)0 8/20
be
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This part of the volume is concerned with the repatriation expenses of Mesopotamian [Iraqi] officers expelled from Syria, and their families [based in Damascus, Beirut and Jerusalem] who are unable to make their own arrangement to return to Iraq. In particular, it is concerned with: the number of the expelled officers; the number of those threatened with expulsion; the reasons for their expulsion; the total costs incurred or proposed to be incurred; discussion of whether the French authorities will share in the expense of the repatriation; and discussion of whether the British Government will pay for the return from the military, imperial or Mesopotamia funds.
Also discussed are: the question of which route to use for the repatriation of the officers; the number and identity of those receiving free passages; the news of certain officers writing letters to those returning to Iraq urging them to refuse service under the British Mandate; and the news that some of the Iraqi officers left in Syria have joined the Turkish army against the French.
The principal correspondents are: the Colonial Office, Downing Street; the High Commissioner for Mesopotamia [Iraq]; the Secretary of State for the Colonies; the High Commissioner, Egypt; the Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs; the Under Secretary of State, 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. ; the War Office; Noury Said [Nuri Pasha An Ottoman title used after the names of certain provincial governors, high-ranking officials and military commanders. al-Said]; the Army Council; the British Ambassador, Rome; the High Commissioner, Jerusalem; the Political Resident A senior ranking political representative (equivalent to a Consul General) from the diplomatic corps of the Government of India or one of its subordinate provincial governments, in charge of a Political Residency. , Aden; the General Headquarters, Egypt; and the Treasury Chambers.
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