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Typescript texts, drafts and press cuttings on subjects including: the future of Syria and the Lebanon, particularly on relations with France; the importance of the Middle East to the Commonwealth and Empire; Ibn Saud, King of Saudi Arabia; the declaration of war against Germany by Syria and Lebanon; the formation of the Arab League through the Protocol of Alexandria.

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Typescript texts and drafts on subjects including: the slowness of the French withdrawal from Syria and Lebanon; the authoritarianism of the Labour Government; the Palestine problem; France’s debt to General Charles de Gaulle; ELS’s recent visit to the Middle East (October-November 1946).

Also includes correspondence with publishers and the press.

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Typescript and manuscript texts and drafts on subjects including: the mutinies of French soldiers in 1917; the career of Sir Winston Churchill; relations between Britain and France over Syria and Lebanon during the war; the Arab world today; Major-General Sir John Davidson’s book on 1st Lord Haig, "Haig Master of the Field"; the danger of politicians being over-swayed by public opinion.

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Proclamations by General Georges Catroux, Commander-in-Chief of Free French in Levant, to the Syrians and Lebanese on granting their independence.

Scope and Contents Includes: ELS short story "The End of Spears" on the work of MS’s Ambulance Unit in North Africa; draft chapters; telegrams on the French coup in the Lebanon (November 1943) and an interview between Oliver Lyttelton [Minister of State in the Middle East, later 1st Lord Chandos] and General Charles de Gaulle on de Gaulle’s refusal to accept the Armistice with the forces of Vichy France (1941); copies of the agreement between Lyttelton and de Gaulle on collaboration between the British and...

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Lebanon

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Typescript texts of interviews with the Associated Press, Arab News Agency and Lord Stansgate [Secretary of State for Air, earlier William Wedgwood Benn] on subjects including: the agreement between France and Britain allowing France to maintain troops in the Lebanon; General Charles de Gaulle’s qualities as a leader; the importance of Arab unity; the importance of maintaining good relations with the Arabs in Egypt and Palestine.

Scope and Contents Letters sent while John Julius was on his way from Belgrade to take up his new post as Second Secretary at the British Embassy in Beirut [Lebanon] and from Beirut itself, on subjects including: disapproval of the new British Ambassador to Yugoslavia [later Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Kosovo, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Serbia, and Slovenia], Sir John Nicholls and his wife; the visit to Belgrade by Sir Laurence Olivier and the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre company, with their production...

Scope and Contents Letters sent while John Julius was working as Second Secretary at the British Embassy in Beirut [Lebanon], on subjects including: the Lebanese crisis, including disturbances in the city, terrorist attacks and the effects of a general strike; a catastrophic visit from Randolph Churchill, Jun 1958; the arrival of American forces, July 1948; General Fuad Chehab being chosen as successor to Camille Chamoun as President of Lebanon; John Julius being shot, Sept 1958. Also includes a letter from...

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Letters sent while John Julius was working as Second Secretary at the British Embassy in Beirut [Lebanon], on subjects including: continuing unrest in Lebanon, caused by anti-Communist feeling in Syria, Feb-Mar 1959; the birth of Jason Cooper; work on the third part of Lady Diana's memoirs ["Trumpets from the Steep"].

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Copies of telegrams and correspondence on Gilbert MacKereth [Counsellor at the British Legation, Beirut, Lebanon] and ELS’s attempts to have him transferred or dismissed on grounds of his handling of economic affairs.

Includes: correspondence on tyre imports and distribution in Syria, and relations with the Bedouin; annotated weekly political summaries from Damascus; reports on the economic situation in the Levant.

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Copies of telegrams and correspondence on Gilbert MacKereth [Counsellor at the British Legation, Beirut, Lebanon] and ELS’s attempts to have him transferred or dismissed.

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Report and copies of correspondence on Gilbert MacKereth [Counsellor at the British Legation, Beirut, Lebanon] and ELS’s attempts to have him transferred or dismissed.

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Copies of telegrams from Gilbert MacKereth [Counsellor at the British Legation, Beirut] to the Foreign Office on the situation in Syria and the Lebanon, and also correspondence on ELS’s attempts to have him transferred or dismissed.

Scope and Contents Diary kept during ELS's time as First Minister to the republics of Syria and the Lebanon. Subjects include: meeting Winston Churchill [Prime Minister] in February 1943; returning to Tobruk [Libya]; the promise of free elections in Syria; tensions between ELS and the French; a war council in Cairo [Egypt] called by Richard Casey [Minister of State Resident in the Middle East], May 1943; tensions between followers of General Charles de Gaulle and General Henri Giraud; ELS's work towards...

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Coloured decorative map printed by the 13 Corps Field Survey Company, Royal Engineers, including the Beirut-Tripoli section of the Haifa-Tripoli railway.

Scope and Contents Includes: correspondence with Prince Hassan of Jordan and Zaid Al-Rifai, Prime Minister of Jordan, with a paper by Prince Hassan on the situation in the Middle East; briefing for and notes of meeting with Hosni Mubarak, President of Egypt; briefings for meetings with Walid Jumblatt [leader of the Lebanese Progressive Socialist Party], Amine Gemayel, President of Lebanon, Farouk Al-Shara, Syrian Foreign Minister, and Farouk Khadoumi of the Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO);...

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Press releases on the Lebanese constitutional crisis following the arrest of the Lebanese cabinet by French forces, sent to the Press Attaché at the British Legation in Beirut for the Near East Arab Broadcasting Station.

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My doubt whether forms change quite insensibly or by a variety being formed & supplanting old parent form

Note; by Charles Robert Darwin

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These maps were compiled by the War Office. Printed on linen-backed paper.

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Cuttings on Palestine, Syria, the Lebanon and general Arab affairs.

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Cuttings on Palestine, Syria, the Lebanon and general Arab affairs.

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Press cuttings on subjects including Anglo-French withdrawal from the Levant, the British treaty with Transjordan [later Jordan], treaty between Turkey and Iraq and Arab hostility on Palestine.

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Also includes cuttings on general Arab affairs.

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Also includes cuttings on general Arab affairs.