5. He views wita apprehension any step which might Ive His lajesty's Government in a controversy relating The Caliphate, and desires me to invite His Lordships bution to the Exo Sultan's recent manifesto, published the #Morning Post* of the 17th April, from which it pars that the Sultan does not aequiesce in the action the Angora Government in regerd to the Caliphate and no intention of abandoning his personal claims in matter. 4. In these circumstances His Grace feels that peruit the Sultan to reside in British Territory, and carry on from that point of ventage a campaign for the povery of the Caliphate, would lay His Majesty's Govern pt open to the charge of actively supporting the Ex-Sultan's e tensions and of interfering in a matter waich they have peatedly declared that they regard as one for settlement Mohamedans exclusively. In view of the delicate lations at present subsisting between His Majesty's fremment and the Mosken subjects of the Empire, His ace is averse from any action which might give rise
