That in area (a) France, and in area (b) Great Britain, shall alone supply advisers or foreign functionaries at the request of the Arab state or confederation of Arab states.

BBC: Map detailing the Sykes-Picot agreement

The meeting was originally scheduled for 28 February, but was postponed last week because, according to State Department sources, the decontrol agenda is so ambitious that preliminary work by functionaries remains incomplete.

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