The Papers of Leopold Amery

Papers including: report of the Committee of Imperial Defence sub-committee on territorial changes (in Equatorial Africa); memorandum by LSA on Allied unity of control; notes by 1st Lord Curzon and [Joseph] Austen Chamberlain, Secretary of State for India, on railways in Persia [later Iran]; telegrams and letter from General Sir [Francis] Reginald Wingate [High Commissioner, Egypt] on Allied territorial claims in North Africa and Abyssinia [later Ethiopia] (8); paper by Lieutenant-Colonel Edward Plunkett [chief of military missions in the Balkans] on the military situation on the Salonika Front [Thessaloniki, Greece]; report by Vice-Admiral Rosslyn Wemyss, Commander-in-Chief, East Indies and Egypt [later 1st Lord Wester Wemyss] on the situation in Arabia and the naval importance of the territory of Sheikh Said; minutes of a Cabinet conference on Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Mark Sykes's political mission to the Egyptian Expeditionary Force; memoranda by LSA on Ireland and the Home Rule Bill; telegrams between Major-General Sir Percy Cox [Chief Political Officer, Indian Expeditionary Force] and the Foreign Secretary [Arthur Balfour] on the future administration of Mesopotamia [Iraq] (6); Admiralty memorandum on the strategic importance of Heligoland [Germany] as a naval base; copies of agreements between the Allies and Italy, on subjects including Constantinople [later Istanbul, Turkey], Romania and Asiatic Turkey; memorandum by LSA on peace terms; appreciation by 1st Lord Hardinge of Penshurst [Permanent Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs] on reviewing agreements with Russia, Italy and Romania, in view of their war contributions; memorandum by LSA on the situation in Greece; Colonial Office note on Togoland [later Togo]; note by [John] Douglas Hazen, Canadian Minister of Marine and Fisheries, on Britain's proposed acquisition of Greenland; note from Sir Louis Mallet to LSA on Allied claims in Djibouti; report and minutes of the committee on peace terms, into territorial claims in Africa, Asia, the Pacific and Europe; telegram from Sir George Buchanan [British Ambassador to Russia] on the attitude of the new Russian Council of Workmen and Soldiers' Deputies to the war; memoranda by LSA on the possible secession of Russia from the Allies, the changing position of Austria towards peace, the situation in Serbia and on policy towards Greece; administrative instructions by Rear-Admiral [William] Reginald Hall, Director, Intelligence Division.