The Cairo Conference of 1921

The Cairo Conference was held in March 1921 at the Semiramus Hotel in Cairo.  Winston Churchill hosted the event with the consent of his advisor T.E. Lawrence.  Churchill was a colonial secretary for Britain at the time and wanted to stabilize the British position in the Middle East while cutting expenses.  At the time the conference was held, Britain had just terminated an Arab revolt that had a financial toll of 40 million pounds.  Also, it was post WW2 so British citizens wanted the soldiers home from overseas.  The main objectives of the conference was to reduce British military overseas, to politically control Britain’s oversea territory stated in the Sykes-Picot agreement and to protect oil reserves in Iraq.  Another goal was to preserve the trade route in India.  The Cairo Conference appointed Faysal as king of Iraq and his brother Abdullah as the leader of Eastern Palestine, or Transjordan.  Arabs and Zionists were both unsatisfied with the outcome of the conference but Britain could withdraw its troops from Eastern Palestine and therefore cut many expenses. 
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