Miscellaneous No. 3 (1939). Correspondence between Sir Henry McMahon, His Majesty’s High Commissioner at Cairo, and the Sherif Hussein of Mecca, July 1915—March 1916.

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Two important parliamentary papers, focused on the McMahon-Hussein correspondence and its aftermath. The correspondence, which consisted of ten letters, saw the Government of the United Kingdom agree to recognise Arab independence in a large part of the Middle East after WWI, in exchange for Hussein bin Ali Al-Hashimi,

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