Memorandum on Intellectual and Political Forces in the Ottoman Empire
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This memorandum was prepared by the Government of India, Foreign and Political Department in January 1917 and aimed to give 'an inner view of the intellectual and political forces which are predominant in the Ottoman Empire.' It consists of four main sections: A. 'German influence in Turkey' (f...
The file consists of a memorandum addressed to the War Cabinet by the Political Department of the India Office on the question of the employment of Japanese troops in Mesopotamia. It summarises the Government of India's views given in a telegram dated 21 November 1917, with military and politica...
Middle East Committee. Position of Ibn Rashid, Emir of Hail, in his relations to other Arab potentates. Memorandum by Cpt the Hon W G A Ormsby-Gore, MP, 21 Jan 1918
Middle East Committee. Note prepared for meeting of 12th January 1918. Sir M. Sykes's memorandum on the Palestine and West Arabian situation
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The file consists of a note, dated 10 January 1918, written by John Evelyn Shuckburgh (Political Department, India Office) on a memorandum written by Sir Mark Sykes on the Palestine and West Arabian situation. The note was prepared for a meeting of the Middle East Committee. Shuckburgh comments o...
Middle East Committee. Mesopotamia: British Engagements as to future Status
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This printed memorandum is a report by the Political Department, India Office, dated 30 January 1918, concerning British engagements as to the future status of Mesopotamia. It is divided into two sections containing extracts from various correspondence and sources. The first section concerns ple...
Middle East Committee. Report of Mesopotamia Trade Commissioners (Messrs. R E Holland and J H Wilson)
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This printed note is the summary of recommendations to the Report of Mesopotamia Trade Commissioners, Robert Erskine Holland and John Henry Wilson. These recommendations start from the premise that German commercial competition in the Persian Gulf was ultimately aimed at controlling the railway ...
This is a printed note prepared by John Evelyn Shuckburgh, Political Department of the India Office, dated 6 February 1918, concerning trade in Mesopotamia vis-à-vis consolidating Britain's commercial interests in light of Robert Erskine Holland and John Henry Wilson's 1917 report, The Prospects ...