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Reference (shelfmark):: IOR/L/PS/18/B338
Title:: Ordinance
Scope & Content:: This file consists of an ordinance which was intended to be named 'The Transfer of Land Ordinance, 1919' and relates to immovable property transactions in Mesopotamia. Included with the ordinance are notes by the following individuals: Chaim Weizmann, President of the British Zionist Federation; ...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: English
Date Range:: Sep 1919-Dec 1919
Extent:: 1 file (5 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: IOR/L/PS/18/B339
Title:: Syria and Mesopotamia: Anglo-French declaration of 8 November 1918
Scope & Content:: This file consists of a copy of the 'Syria and Mesopotamia: Anglo-French declaration of 8 November 1918'. It is written in French and expresses the wishes of Britain and France to liberate those they feel have been 'too long oppressed by the Turks' by helping them to install functional government...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: English and French
Date Range:: 8 Nov 1918
Extent:: 1 file (1 folio)

Reference (shelfmark):: IOR/L/PS/18/B341
Title:: Mesopotamia and Middle East: Question of Future Control
Scope & Content:: This is a secret printed memorandum, dated 1 June 1920, with an introductory note, dated 2 June 1920, by the Edwin Samuel Montagu (initialled E S M), Secretary of State for India. It concerns the question of future British control in Mesopotamia [Iraq] and Middle East. The memorandum discusses th...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: English
Date Range:: Jun 1920
Extent:: 1 file (2 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: IOR/L/PS/18/B342
Title:: Mesopotamian Constitution. Memorandum by Mr. H. R. C. Dobbs, C.S.I., Foreign Secretary to the Government of India, on the proposals of the Bonham-Carter Committee
Scope & Content:: This printed memorandum, dated 26 May 1920, by Henry Robert Conway Dobbs, Foreign Secretary to the Government of India, concerns the proposals of the Bonham-Carter Committee which sat in April 1920 to discuss constitutional reform in Mesopotamia [Iraq]. The memorandum discusses various paragraphs...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: English
Date Range:: Jul 1920
Extent:: 1 file (2 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: IOR/L/PS/18/B343
Title:: Mesopotamian constitution. Bonham-Carter Committee: Summary of Proposals
Scope & Content:: This printed memorandum, dated July 1920, is a report outlining the summary of proposals by the Bonham-Carter Committee for the constitution of Mesopotamia [Iraq]. The report gives a list of the members of the committee, who include: Sir Edgar Bonham-Carter, Judicial Secretary; Lieutenant-Colone...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: English
Date Range:: Jul 1920
Extent:: 1 file (3 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: IOR/L/PS/18/B345
Title:: The Assyrian and Armenian refugees in Mesopotamia. Memorandum by the Secretary of State for India.
Scope & Content:: This file consists of a memorandum written by Edwin Samuel Montagu, the Secretary of State for India, describing the situation of Assyrian and Armenian refugees in Mesopotamia.
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 5 Jul 1920
Extent:: 1 file (1 folio)

Reference (shelfmark):: IOR/L/PS/18/B346
Title:: Mesopotamia. Proposed Constitution: Telegraphic Correspondence with Baghdad
Scope & Content:: This printed memorandum, dated July 1920, contains a series of reprinted telegrams in a single collection for the purposes of facilitating the discussions with Sir Percy Zachariah Cox on the proposed constitution for Mesopotamia [Iraq]. It is noted that the series is not complete, but contains al...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: English
Date Range:: Jul 1920
Extent:: 1 file (6 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: IOR/L/PS/18/B347
Title:: Mesopotamia. Appointment of Sir Percy Cox as High Commissioner: Instructions of His Majesty's Government
Scope & Content:: This printed report published by the India Office contains two sets of draft instructions approved by the Finance Committee of the Cabinet for Sir Percy Zachariah Cox's personal guidance as High Commissioner for Mesopotamia to give effect to the policy of His Majesty's Government. The first set ...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 28 Aug 1920
Extent:: 1 file (2 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: IOR/L/PS/18/B348
Title:: Mesopotamia. Preliminary Report on Causes of Unrest
Scope & Content:: This printed memorandum, marked ’Very Secret', is the first part a preliminary report by Major Norman Napier Evelyn Bray, Special Intelligence Officer attached to the Political Department, India Office, dated 14 September 1920, concerning the causes of the Iraqi revolt against the British in 192...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 14 Sep 1920
Extent:: 1 file (5 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: IOR/L/PS/18/B350
Title:: Mesopotamia. Causes of unrest. Report No. II
Scope & Content:: This undated printed memorandum, marked 'Very Secret', is the second part of a preliminary report by Major Norman Napier Evelyn Bray, Special Intelligence Officer attached to the Political Department, India Office. This part focuses primarily on the role of Bolsehvist policy in regards to the Ira...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1920
Extent:: 1 file (9 folios)

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