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Reference (shelfmark):: Mss Eur F112/271
Title:: Records and papers of the 5 Committees on the Near and Middle East
Scope & Content:: This file mainly consists of notes and minutes relating to meetings of the Persia Committee between October 1917 and March 1918, covering British policy regarding that country. The file begins with a note by George Curzon, on Foreign Office headed paper, dated 1920 or later, which reads as follo...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1917-1920?
Extent:: 1 file (55 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: Mss Eur F112/273
Title:: Middle East Committee and Eastern Committee
Scope & Content:: This file relates to two War Cabinet committees: the Middle East Committee (originally named the Mesopotamian Administration Committee), and the Eastern Committee, both chaired by George Curzon. The first half of the file consists almost entirely of printed minutes of meetings of the Middle Eas...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 18 Jan 1918-31 Dec 1918
Extent:: 1 file (21 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: Mss Eur F112/286
Title:: Letters and Papers on the Mesopotamia Commission and the Cabinet Committee on Iraq
Scope & Content:: The file contains memoranda, correspondence, and other papers relating to the Mesopotamia [Iraq] Commission (the parliamentary commission of inquiry into the Mesopotamia campaign), British policy in relation to Mesopotamia after the First World War, and the Cabinet Committee on Iraq. These pap...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: English and French
Date Range:: 4 Jun 1917-11 Oct 1923
Extent:: 1 file (95 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: Mss Eur F112/287
Title:: Papers Relating to the League of Nations Mandates
Scope & Content:: File containing correspondence, memoranda and reports relating to the creation of the League of Nations mandates, by which the administration of former colonies of Germany and the Ottoman Empire [Turkey] was granted variously to the United Kingdom, France, Belgium and Japan. Much of the file i...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: English and French
Date Range:: 30 Jan 1919-15 Jan 1922
Extent:: 1 file (323 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: Mss Eur F112/288
Title:: The Establishment of Mandates, Principally: Mesopotamia, Palestine and Syria
Scope & Content:: This file contains papers relating to the establishment of mandates which were drawn up under Article 22 of the Covenant of the League of Nations (signed on 28 June 1919 as part of the Treaty of Versailles that officially ended the state of war between Germany and the Allied Powers). The papers ...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: English and French
Date Range:: Jul 1920-Dec 1920
Extent:: 1 file (234 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: Mss Eur F112/294
Title:: Mosul Question, Lausanne 1922-1923 and after - Papers, despatches, speeches - Hotel de la Mer at Lausanne - Correspondence about oil
Scope & Content:: Letters and papers on the frontier between Iraq (also written as Irak in the file) and Turkey, with particular reference to Mosul and questions concerning oil. The file consists mainly of correspondence between Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs George Curzon, and officials in the Foreign Of...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 15 Nov 1922-3 Nov 1923
Extent:: 251 folios (1 file)

Reference (shelfmark):: Mss Eur F112/570, f 11
Title:: 'Map to illustrate the Agreements of 1916 in regard to Asia Minor, Mesopotamia, &c.'
Scope & Content:: Classified 'Secret'. The map bears a secondary title 'A Map of Turkey in Asia'. Bears the printed designation 'Map 1'. Depicts a proposed division of the Ottoman Empire into spheres of influence and protection by the Allied powers. The division is based on agreements reached between 1916 and t...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1918
Extent:: 1 map sheet

Reference (shelfmark):: Mss Eur F112/570, f 19
Title:: 'Map 1. Map to illustrate the Agreements of 1916 in regard to Asia Minor, Mesopotamia, &c.'
Scope & Content:: Classified 'Secret'. Map forms a part of Mss Eur F112/570, ff 17-23. The original map bears the secondary title 'A Map of Turkey in Asia'. A small paper sheet has been pasted over this and bears a later secondary title 'Map 1. Areas referred to in the Agreements between Great Britain, France, ...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1918
Extent:: 1 map sheet

Reference (shelfmark):: Mss Eur F112/570, f 20
Title:: 'Map 2A. Areas in which it is hoped that the Peoples of Turkey, Arabia, and the Caucasus, if they group themselves on the lines indicated in Map 2, will subsequently opt for the respective assistance of the Allied Powers.'
Scope & Content:: Map is an overlay to Mss Eur F112/570, f 21 and forms a part of Mss Eur F112/570, ff 17-23. The title and legend are printed on a small paper sheet that has been pasted over the south-west corner of the map. Map portrays, by variously coloured boundaries, areas in which it is 'hoped that the in...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1918
Extent:: 1 map sheet

Reference (shelfmark):: Mss Eur F112/570, f 26
Title:: 'Map 1. Map to illustrate the Agreements of 1916 in regard to Asia Minor, Mesopotamia, &c.'
Scope & Content:: Classified 'Secret'. Map forms a part of Mss Eur F112/570, ff 24-30. The original map bears the secondary title 'A Map of Turkey in Asia'. A small paper sheet has been pasted over this and bears a later secondary title 'Map 1. Areas referred to in the Agreements between Great Britain, France, ...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1918
Extent:: 1 map sheet

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