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1. File 4917/1920 'MESOPOTAMIA: MANDATE [AND PALESTINE]'
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- Abstract: The volume includes correspondence in the form of telegrams, letters, minutes, draft mandates and conventions. The correspondence is mainly about the British Mandate for Palestine and Mesopotamia, and the French Mandate for Syria and Lebanon. British and French officials exchanged draft copies of the mandates discussing the wordings, modifications required, the date to submit them to the Council of the League of Nations, and the date to get the drafts signed by the allied powers.The main issues discussed in the volume are the following:Amendments required in regard to the section on the holy placesThe French Government’s desire to imitate the Mandate for Mesopotamia as far as possible for its own mandate in SyriaDraft declarations constituting the mandates for Palestine and MesopotamiaProposals for the future administration of EgyptThe question on whether the foreign relation article of the draft Mandate for Mesopotamia should follow the Egyptian example or notThe necessity to get the views of the High Commissioner of Mesopotamia, Percy Cox, on the draft MandateDraft Anglo-French Convention discussing the construction of two railways in the Yarmuk valley; the water of the rivers Tigris, Euphrates and the Jordan Valley; and the Syria-Palestine boundariesThe maintaining of the local troops in the territories for the defence of these territoriesThe question of whether Arabic should be the official language of MesopotamiaCommunication between the Foreign Office and the High Commissioner, Jerusalem, Herbert Samuel, regarding the question of ‘safeguarding Palestine’s right to use the waters of Litani and Yarmuk for power purposes even if they fall outside frontiers of Palestine’The wording of the draft Mandate for Palestine, and the use of the terms ‘National Home’ and ‘Jewish State’The French Government's mistrust of the British policy in Palestine‘Italian Government’s opposition to entry into force of mandates pending ratification of Turkish Peace Treaty’The communication of mandates to the United States GovernmentPostponement of legalisation of British position in Palestine and Mesopotamia until the mandates are passed by the Council of the League of NationsThe necessity of drafting of an organic law and postponement of the Mesopotamia mandate.The volume contains the following items:Copy of the Convention Franco-Britannique (Franco-British Convention) signed 23 December 1920, by the French Prime Minister, Georges Leygues and the British Ambassador to France, Charles Hardinge of Penfhurst [Penshurst]Copies in French and in English of draft mandates for Palestine, Mesopotamia, Syria and Lebanon submitted by representatives of the British and the French Delegations to the Council of the League of Nations for its approvalA convention regarding Palestine, signed between the British Principal Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, Joseph Austen Chamberlain, and the Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the United States at London, Frank B Kellogg.The principal correspondents in the volume are: the Secretary of State for the Colonies; the Assistant Secretary, Foreign Office; the Political Department, India Office; the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs; the Under-Secretary of State for India; the Secretary of State for India; the Secretary of the War Office; the Secretary to the Army Council; the British Embassy, Paris; the British Delegation to the Council of the League of Nations; the Director of Military Intelligence, War Office; the Treasury; the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs; the French Delegation to the Council of the League of Nations; and the French Embassy, London.The volume includes some duplications.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the first folio with 1 and terminates at the last folio with 374; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio. Multiple intermittent additional foliation sequences are also present.The foliation sequence does not include the front and back covers, nor does it include the leading and ending flyleaves.
2. File 4722/1918 Pt 9 'Mesopotamia: Control of'
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- Abstract: The volume consists of correspondence, memoranda, minutes, and notes relating to the question of responsibility for the administration of Mesopotamia [Iraq] and other former Ottoman territories under some form of British control following the First World War.The papers concern a number of matters, including:A proposal for a new government department to oversee British administration in the Middle EastThe need to retain civil service staff employed in the region and inform them of their futures at the earliest possible dateAdministrative and military expenditure in MesopotamiaThe question of troop numbers in Mesopotamia, Palestine, Egypt, and Persia [Iran].The correspondence is between officials at the India Office, Foreign Office, and War Office, and the High Commissioner in Bagdad [Baghdad], Sir Percy Cox.At the back of the volume (folios 26-37) is a copy, in French, of the organic and electoral laws of Egypt, as promulgated on 21 July 1918, with a memorandum by Viscount Kitchener [Herbert Horatio Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener], Consul-General at Cairo.The volume includes a divider which gives the subject number, the year the subject file was opened, the subject heading, and a list of correspondence references by year. This is placed at the back of the correspondence.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the first folio with 1, and terminates at the last folio with 38; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio.