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finance. New schemes which would cost money were to remain in abeyance. The Ministries of Munitions, Shipping, and Food were to be wound up by March next. Our forces in Persia were to be withdrawn, and the garrison of Palestine was to be reduced ; it was hoped that the forces in Mesopotamia would soon be reduced to "a small nucleus garrison" and replaced by an Arab army. Before sanctioning any new naval construction, the Cabinet would cause the Committee of Imperial Defence to examine " the whole question of naval strength as affected by the latest development of naval warfare."

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