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The joint '''Anglo-French Declarion''' was issued four days prior to the signing of the [[Armistice]] which ended [[World War I]].  The joint public declaration was made to [[Arab]]s in the former provinces of the [[Ottoman Empire]], a Central Power ally of Germany & Austro-Hungary during he war.  The public declaration ran counter to war aims expressed by Great Britain only two years earlier during the Arab Revolt when certain promises were made to Arab leaders to incite a rebellion against the Turks.  The earlier [[McMahon-Hussein Correspondence]] between Sharif of Mecca Husayn bin Ali and British Foreign Secretary Henry McMahon alluded to the possibility of creating a united [[Arab Federation]] out of former territories of the Ottoman Empire.  After the drawing of the [[Sykes-Picot]] line, which remains the boundary between modern Syria and Iraq, it was becoming more obvious Britain and France intended to divide up territories into several [[nations state]]s rather than a single united Arab Federation.  And the Sykes-Picot line also was illustrative that the new system of "League of Nations mandates" bore striking similarities to the old "imperial spheres of influence."

The joint '''Anglo-French Declarion''' was issued four days prior to the signing of the [[Armistice]] which ended [[World War I]].  The joint public declaration was made to [[Arab]]s in the former provinces of the [[Ottoman Empire]], a Central Power ally of Germany & Austro-Hungary during he war.  The public declaration ran counter to war aims expressed by Great Britain only two years earlier during the Arab Revolt when certain promises were made to Arab leaders to incite a rebellion against the Turks.  The earlier [[McMahon-Hussein Correspondence]] between Sharif of Mecca Husayn bin Ali and British Foreign Secretary Henry McMahon alluded to the possibility of creating a united [[Arab Federation]] out of former territories of the Ottoman Empire.  After the drawing of the [[Sykes-Picot]] line, which remains the boundary between modern Syria and Iraq, it was becoming more obvious Britain and France intended to divide up territories into several [[nations state]]s rather than a single united Arab Federation.  And the Sykes-Picot line also was illustrative that the new system of "League of Nations mandates" bore striking similarities to the old "imperial spheres of influence."

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<center>'''ANGLO-FRENCH DECLARATION'''</center>

<center>'''ANGLO-FRENCH DECLARATION'''</center>

<center>November 7, 1918</center>

<center>November 7, 1918</center>