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'Mosul Question, Lausanne 1922-1923 and after - Papers, despatches, speeches - Hotel de la Mer at Lausanne - Correspondence about oil' [‎241r] (480/501)

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The record is made up of 251 folios (1 file). It was created in 15 Nov 1922-3 Nov 1923. It was written in English. 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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a return on the vast sums that we have spent upon the
country.
The view of the Department is that there is no
alternative but to insist upon the retention of &osul
and tne maintenance of the existing northern frontier
ol Iraq, i.e. tne limits of the territory at present
administered from Baghdad, including Amadiah and the
adjoining region where the Assyrians are settled. It
is true that the boundary laid down in the Treaty of
S&vres left Amadiah to the Turks, but the Treaty of •
Sevres has been disavowed by the Kemalists and must be
regarded as "not only dead but damned". We have to
work on de facto conditions, under which Amadiah forms
part oi the Iraq state. Vis-d-vis the Turks we must
take our stand on the general ground that, Mosul itself
is and always has been a mainly Arab town; that the
low lying parts of the vilayet are also Arab, while the
country to the east and south-east, which contains other
elements, finds its economic outlet in Bagndad and could
not be separated from the adjoining territory without
serious disadvantage to itself. It might be possible
also to argue that, in view of their policy of removing
all Christians from Asia Minor, the Turks cannot
reasonably claim an area in which there is a large
Christian population; nor can we, in the light of recent
experience, leave that population at their mercy, A
further argument, for what it is worth, is tnat, when
Sir Arnold Wilson’s plebiscite was taken in 1919, the
whole country was agreed that, whatever form of
government might be set up in Iraq (as to which there was
a wide divergence of
opinion

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Letters and papers on the frontier between Iraq (also written as Irak in the file) and Turkey, with particular reference to Mosul and questions concerning oil. The file consists mainly of correspondence between Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs George Curzon, and officials in the Foreign Office, Air Ministry, Colonial Office and Ismet Pasha An Ottoman title used after the names of certain provincial governors, high-ranking officials and military commanders. [Mustafa İsmet İnönü]. The contents of the file are as follows:

Following documents are undated:

  • Lord Balfour to League of Nations. Speech: The frontier between Turkish territory and the territory of Iraq
  • The President of the League of Nations. Reply: after Speech by Balfour
  • Typewritten report: The question of Mosul
  • Typewritten report: The Question of Mosul

The file also includes handwritten notes by Curzon on the Mosul vilayet and groups residing there.

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251 folios (1 file)
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The papers are arranged in approximate chronological order from the front to the rear of the file.

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Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 251; 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.

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Mss Eur F112/294
Title
'Mosul Question, Lausanne 1922-1923 and after - Papers, despatches, speeches - Hotel de la Mer at Lausanne - Correspondence about oil'
Pages
1r:28v, 28ar:28av, 29r:72v, 91r:167v, 170r:218r, 218r:251v
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