1918 Anglo-French Modus Vivendi

Modus vivendi agreement The 1918 Anglo–French Modus Vivendi was a modus vivendi agreement signed on 30 September 1918 regarding the creation of the Occupied Enemy Territory Administration in the area of modern-day Syria, Jordan, Israel, Lebanon and Palestine. The agreement was first negotiated on 19 September 1918,William E. Watson Tricolor and Crescent: France and the Islamic World https://books.google.com/books?id=o4vrUbMK5eEC&pg=PA53 2003 Greenwood Publishing Group 978-0-275-97470-1 53– and was built on the foundation of the previous Anglo-French agreement relating to the area, known as the 1916 Sykes-Picot agreement.Paris 2003 48 While the agreement was ostensibly focused on the French goal to take responsibility over their allotted areas of responsibility, now under Edmund Allenby’s military command, the British used the agreement to begin the revision of the Sykes-Picot allocations.Lieshout 2016 303-304Hurewitz 1979 118-127 In practice, the agreement resulted in the creation of the three OETA territories: South (Palestine) with a British-led administration, West (the north Mediterranean coast including Lebanon), with a French-led administration, and East (inland Syria including Transjordan), with an Arab-led administration.Lieshout 2016 303-304Hurewitz 1979 118-127 The agreement The region covered by the modus vivendi, as agreed in the 1916 Sykes–Picot Agreement MPK1-426 Sykes Picot Agreement Map signed 8 May 1916.jpg 300 900 450 -375 -50 left none The key terms of the agreement were as follows; the map references related to the 1916 Sykes-Picot map:Lieshout 2016 303-304Hurewitz 1979 118-127 In the areas of special French interest, as described in the Anglo–French Agreement of 1916, which are or may be occupied by the Allied forces of the Egyptian expeditionary force, the Commander- in-Chief will recognise the representative of the French government as his Chief Political Adviser. The functions of the Chief Political Adviser will be as follows: 1. Subject to the supreme authority of the Commander-in-Chief, the Chief Political Adviser will act as sole intermediary on political and administrative questions between the Commander- in-Chief and any Arab government or governments, permanent or provisional, which may be set up in Area ‘A’, and recognised under the terms of clause 1 of the Agreement of 1916. 2. At the request of the Commander-in-chief, and subject to his supreme authority, the Chief Political Adviser will be charged by the Commander- in-Chief with the establishment of such provisional administration in the towns of the Syrian littoral situated in the blue area, and in the blue area in general. 3. Subject to the approval of the Commander- in-Chief, the Chief Political Adviser will provide [...] Such European advisory staff and assistants as the Arab government or governments set up in Area ‘A’ may require under clause 1 of the Anglo–French Agreement of 1916 [...] Such personnel as may be necessary for civil duties in the littoral towns or other parts of the blue area. Bibliography J. C. Hurewitz Hurewitz J. C. The Middle East and North Africa in World Politics: A Documentary Record – British-French Supremacy, 1914–1945 https://books.google.com/books?id=w9TsVxeUkQMC&pg=PA103 1 June 1979 Yale University Press 978-0-300-02203-2 Lieshout Robert H. Britain and the Arab Middle East: World War I and its Aftermath https://books.google.com/books?id=_wu3DQAAQBAJ&pg=PA405 2016 I.B.Tauris 978-1-78453-583-4 Paris Timothy J. Britain, the Hashemites and Arab Rule: The Sherifian Solution https://books.google.com/books?id=W02RAgAAQBAJ 2003 Routledge 978-1-135-77191-1 References Category:1918 in France Category:1918 in Ottoman Syria Category:1918 in the United Kingdom Category:Boundary treaties Category:Dissolution of the Ottoman Empire Category:France–Ottoman Empire relations Category:France–United Kingdom relations Category:France–United Kingdom treaties Category:Ottoman Empire–United Kingdom relations Category:Secret treaties Category:Treaties concluded in 1918 Category:Treaties involving territorial changes Category:Treaties of the French Third Republic Category:Treaties of the United Kingdom (1801–1922) Category:World War I treaties Category:Sykes–Picot Agreement