ABSTRACT
The Dardanelles Committee met on October 6th and 7th and then adjourned to enable the General Staff and Admiralty War Staff to prepare a joint Memorandum on the situation. On October 16th the British Government as an inducement to Greece offered her Cyprus if she would support Serbia. The decision was taken, as my diary confirms, at an informal meeting and the Government was taken to task in Parliament for offering to cede British territory without even consulting the Cabinet. The general view of the Committee was that the moral and political objections to the abandonment of the Gallipoli Peninsula outweighed those of abandoning Serbia. The French Government had been further weakened by the resignation of Delcass on October 13th ostensibly on the score of ill health, but actually, it was reported, owing to disapproval of the Serbian enterprise.
