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‘MESOPOTAMIA: RETURN OF LEADING BAGHDADIS FROM SYRIA. JAAFAR PASHA [and] NURI SAID PASHA’ [166r] (17/117)
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In any further communication
on this subject, please quote
No -7, 14250/14350/44
and address—
not to any person by name,
but to—
“ The Under-Secretary of State,”
Foreign Office,
London, S.W. 1.
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I am directed ty Earl Curzon of Ke dieston to
aclcnov/ledge the receipt of your letter ho. P.8157
of the 17th ho y ember on the subject of the return
of Nuri
Pasha
An Ottoman title used after the names of certain provincial governors, high-ranking officials and military commanders.
to Mesopotamia.
Lord Oarzon is of opinion that in view
of the application of Nuri
Pasha
An Ottoman title used after the names of certain provincial governors, high-ranking officials and military commanders.
to return to that
country as a private individual, and of the fact
that Jaafar
Pasha
An Ottoman title used after the names of certain provincial governors, high-ranking officials and military commanders.
was allowed to return uncondimanally,
no subsequent protest having been made by the French
Government, the stipulations suggested in your
letter und.er reference may be dispensed uith*
His Lordship proposes to defer transmitting
a copy of Jaafar Pasha’s message to uuri
Pasha
An Ottoman title used after the names of certain provincial governors, high-ranking officials and military commanders.
until
Lie learns whether Mr. Secretary Montagu is disposed,
re- consideration, to concur in this view.
I am,
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humble servant,
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Copy to Birn .
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India Office
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This part of the volume is concerned with the return of leading Iraqi officers Gaafar Pasha An Ottoman title used after the names of certain provincial governors, high-ranking officials and military commanders. el Askari [Jafar Pasha An Ottoman title used after the names of certain provincial governors, high-ranking officials and military commanders. al-Askari, also written as Jaafar and Jafar] and Nury Said [Nuri Pasha An Ottoman title used after the names of certain provincial governors, high-ranking officials and military commanders. al-Said, also written as Noury] to Iraq.
Also discussed are the appointment of Percy Cox as High Commissioner for Mesopotamia [Iraq]; the British Government’s proposal that Sherif Feisal [Sharif Faysal bin Husayn bin Ali al-Hashimi] should be offered the Emirate of Mesopotamia; the creation of an Arab State in Mesopotamia headed by an independent Arab Government and mandated by the British; the relation between Sharif Feisal and the French in Syria; the arrangement of a meeting between Jafar Pasha An Ottoman title used after the names of certain provincial governors, high-ranking officials and military commanders. and Percy Cox at Port Said; and the need to encourage division between Arabs and Turks which could lead to the friendship between Arabs and British.
The principal correspondents are: the Viceroy and Governor-General of India, Foreign Department; the Secretary of State for the Colonies; the High Commissioner for Mesopotamia; the Under Secretary of State, Foreign Office; the British Consul, Port Said, Egypt; the Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs; and Nury Said.
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- ‘MESOPOTAMIA: RETURN OF LEADING BAGHDADIS FROM SYRIA. JAAFAR PASHA [and] NURI SAID PASHA’
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- 158r:159v, 161r:174v, 176r:184r, 185r:213v, iii-r:iv-v, back-i
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