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‘MESOPOTAMIA: RETURN OF LEADING BAGHDADIS FROM SYRIA. JAAFAR PASHA [and] NURI SAID PASHA’ [173v] (32/117)
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I sa.w Nuri for five minutes yesterday. He asked that his letter
(attached) should be put up to Secretary of State and seemed
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to hope for an interview.
It is worth while remembering that fluri has been recently
reported to have joined the ’ Leaaue of Oppressed Nat i on? *, a society
organised by the German Foreign Office for the unsettling of
British and French possessions in the East. He is probably a
mischievous individual and is, I believe, regarded by his own
people as shifty and unstable thou/$ii consistentjin extremeness of
views. His appearance is certainly against him. On the other
hand he is a brave man and served Feisal's cause well.
We shoul d,, it is presumed, tel egraph to Sir P. Cox asking
his views first of all. Possibly Ja'afar
Pasha
An Ottoman title used after the names of certain provincial governors, high-ranking officials and military commanders.
will have views on
his compatriot. Meanwhile would Car A. Hirtsel, or perhaps the
Secretary of State himself, o€bfte to see Nuri?
Draft telegram to Sir P. Cox submitted.
(Sd.) R. MARKS.
12 . 11 . 20 .
I am not clear what Nuri means bv facilities. Presumably he
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can pay his own passage, though possibly from Port Said onwards he
be
would accept the same treatment as may^meted out to the Mesopotamian
officers from Syria who are awaiting,repatriation. It is probable
that as soon as he reached Baghdad he will begin propaganda of some
sort. On the other hand it might be wise to get him away from
Faisal as soon as possible.
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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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