Anglo-French Declaration of 1918

Summary

The Anglo-French Declaration printed as Annex I of the 1939 committee report on the McMahon–Hussein correspondence, dated November 9th, 1918 in the report’s Contents and the 7th November, 1918 in the report’s para. 19 — both dates held as printed (Report of a Committee set up to consider certain correspondence between Sir Henry McMahon and the Sharif of Mecca, lines 137, 277-283).

It is one of the subsequent statements the Committee considered as likely to shed light on the meaning or intention of the correspondence; the Committee expressed no opinion on its proper interpretation, while holding it and the other statements evidentiary of the responsibilities set out in its para. 22 (lines 277-290).
Its text (Annex I) is read in part 2 of the source.
Its text as printed in Annex I (lines 779-789), whose own heading dates it November 7, 1918: the object of France and Great Britain in the East is “the complete and definite emancipation of the peoples so long oppressed by the Turks and the establishment of national governments and administrations deriving their authority from the initiative and free choice of the indigenous populations”, in Syria and Mesopotamia and in the territories whose liberation they are engaged in securing, with no particular institutions imposed.