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File 3579/1916 'Turkey: the future of Constantinople' [68r] (144/530)
The record is made up of 1 volume (259 folios). It was created in 5 Sep 1916-27 Mar 1919. It was written in English and French. The original is part of the British Library: India Office The department of the British Government to which the Government of India reported between 1858 and 1947. The successor to the Court of Directors. Records and Private Papers Documents collected in a private capacity. .
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power the beet solution would be to keep the Turk there et present.
SIR LOUIS MALLET: The solution I would like would be to turn the
Turk out; but I sec great difficulty about it.
THE CHAIRMAN: What does Sir Eyre Crowe say about It?
SIR EYRE CHORE: I take the point of my Memorandum that there
was a general agreement that the American solution was the best.,
but failing the American solution internationalisation of some
sort is inevitable.
The Admiralty has referred to the analogy of the Danube com
mission, which I have myself also quoted. Admiral Hope will pro
bably know that the fact that Gslatz is a Roumanian town has
very much hampered the work of the Commission, It is one of the
difficulties with which they have to deal that the seat of the._r
activities Is a foreign town. From that point, of view any Oom-
mission which would be established would function bettor n the
town was under their own control. I therefore would borrow the
analogy of the Panama Canal. Tno Americans control Panama, and
the Americans also in tiio Canal zone con^x’ox cno shores L ..^e
.inside waters. The Americans if they exorcise police fuiotxmio
would certainly exercise water police functions over the harboms
and quays in all the ports in the Marmora. There would be no dif
ficulty about that. We have been drawing up in the Foreign
Offi.oc in some detail a scheme to give effect to the American
Commission, We do not believe that we can give all the powers
to the Americans there which they hove in Panama; but I think
that it would be essential to them to hold the City oi Constantin
ople. You would have a Turkish Commissioner in the Commission
who would have to be in close touch with the American Government.
The influence of that Commissioner would be a thing mat would
effect the working. Everybody would run alter hj.m c-nd or/ to
set something out of him.
Tho argument we have heard about Muhammedan feeling in India
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The volume contains papers regarding the future of Constantinople [Instanbul]. It includes: India Office The department of the British Government to which the Government of India reported between 1858 and 1947. The successor to the Court of Directors. minute papers; copies of correspondence between the Foreign Office and Sir George Buchanan, HM Ambassador at Petrograd [St Petersburg], and other British diplomats; draft telegrams from the Secretary of State for India addressed to the Viceroy of India; correspondence between the India Office The department of the British Government to which the Government of India reported between 1858 and 1947. The successor to the Court of Directors. and the Foreign Office; and other papers. Some of the correspondence is in French.
Issues discussed in the papers include: whether the Constantinople Agreement, concluded between the British, French and Russian governments in March 1915 (under the terms of which Constantinople and the Straits of the Dardanelles would be annexed to the Russian Empire), should be made public; the possible effect upon Muslims in India of the announcement of the agreement; and the question of the re-conversion of the St Sophia [Hagia Sophia] mosque in Constantinople into a Christian church.
The volume includes a divider which gives the subject number, the year the subject file was opened, the subject heading, and a list of correspondence references by year. This is placed at the back of the correspondence.
- Extent and format
- 1 volume (259 folios)
- Arrangement
The subject 3579 (Turkey: the future of Constantinople) consists of one volume, IOR/L/PS/10/623.
The papers are arranged in approximate chronological order from the rear to the front of the volume.
- Physical characteristics
Foliation: the foliation sequence for this description commences at the first folio with 1, and terminates at the last folio with 259; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. side of each folio. The front and back covers, along with the two leading and two ending flyleaves have not been foliated.
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- Title
- File 3579/1916 'Turkey: the future of Constantinople'
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- front, back, spine, edge, head, tail, front-i, i-r:i-v, 1r:4v, 5v:9v, 10v:25v, 26v:30v, 32r:115r, 116v:137v, 139r:140v, 142r:147v, 150r:196v, 198r:222v, 226r:234r, 235r:257v, 259r:259v, ii-r:ii-v, back-i
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- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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