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Coll 17/16(1) 'Iraq. The Assyrian Crisis' [446r] (902/1036)
The record is made up of 1 volume (514 folios). It was created in 17 Jun 1933-31 Aug 1933. 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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..presentations I may have to make may always receive the consideration which
ming fr om one m my P osltlon ' they deserve.
l<) 5 . I also request that the Government will preserve, with as little chancre
«possible, the ancient customs of the Assyrian people, as in the case of the other
!;Ll populations of Iraq.
Enclosure 3 in No. 1 .
Draft Mar Shimun to the Minister of the Interior, June 19. 1933.
(Rejected by the Minister.)
I HAVE the honour to acknowledge receipt of your letter of the 18th June,
I understand from my conversations with Mr. Edmonds that the references
to history in my letter of the 3rd June, 1933, have created an impression different
from that which I wished to convey. I was not, of course, claiming temporal
power in the sense of temporal power delegated to me by the Governments
named, but was referring to the traditional customs of the Assyrians, which I
desire to see maintained.
If your Excellency agrees to this, will you kindly instruct the authorities
concerned.
As regards the work of Major Thomson, I am, of course, anxious to see it
crowned with success, and will do my best to co-operate if the work of settlement
is carried out in a manner which, in my opinion, promises satisfactory results.
My ideas on this subject are set forth in my correspondence with Sir Kinahan
Cornwallis.
With assurances, &c.
MAR SHIMUN.
Enclosure 4 in No. 1 .
draft Letter of Farewell which Mar Shimun, on June :20, 1933, Promised
Mr. Ogilvie-Forbes to Address to the Minister of the Interior.
Your Excellency,
AS arranged with you this morning, I return to Mosul to-morrow, the
’21st June, but I do not wish to leave Bagdad without expressing once more to
your Excellency my appreciation of your courtesy in receiving me and of the
patient hearing which you have given to me.
While, unfortunately, there are several points on which we have not yet
reached an understanding, I nevertheless wish to assure your Excellency that I
jhall do all in my power to encourage the Assyrian people to live in peace and
harmony with their fellow subjects in Iraq.
Yours, &c.
MAR SHIMUN.
C 1 ) See enclosure No. 1.
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The volume contains papers regarding the Assyrian Crisis in Iraq during 1933. It primarily consists of correspondence between HM Ambassador to Iraq (Sir Francis Humphrys), HM Chargé d’Affaires to Iraq (George Ogilvie-Forbes), and the Foreign Office.
The papers document the negotiations between Mar Shimun XXIII Eshai – the Patriarch of the Church of the East – and the Government of Iraq, regarding: the spiritual and temporal authority claimed by the Mar Shimun; the Assyrian Settlement Scheme; areas designated for settlement; and clashes between Assyrians, Iraqis and Kurds.
Ogilvie-Forbes and Humphrys reported on the movement of Assyrians into Syria, requests to the Syrian and French authorities that they be allowed to remain, proposals to disarm the group, and clashes with Iraqi troops when numbers of Assyrians returned to Iraq. The papers also document the proposed arrest or exile of the Mar Shimun by the Government of Iraq, and the volume also contains copies of letters exchanged by the Mar Shimun, the Iraqi Interior Ministry, and King Faisal.
The papers document the worsening crisis, including reports of looting and village burning at Dohuk [Dahūk], the murder of Assyrian prisoners by Iraqi armed forces led by Bakr Sidqi, and the Simele Massacre of August 1933. These papers include reports submitted by the Head of the British Military Mission in Iraq (Major General Rowan Robinson), the Administrative Inspector at Mosul (Colonel R S Stafford), and Major D B Thomson of the Assyrian Settlement Office. The file concludes with reports on the Simele Massacre, arrangements for the arrival of Mar Shimun and his family in Cyprus, the work of the Refugee Relief Commission in Mosul and Dohuk, and the establishment by the League of Nations of a Small Minorities Commission to investigate the crisis.
The volume includes a divider which gives a list of correspondence references contained in the volume by year. This is placed at the end of the correspondence (folio 1).
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- 1 volume (514 folios)
- Arrangement
The papers are arranged in rough chronological order from the rear to the front of the volume.
- Physical characteristics
Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the first folio with 1 and terminates at the last folio with 510; 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 foliation sequence does not include the front and back covers, nor does it include the leading and ending flyleaves. An additional foliation sequence is present in parallel between ff 1-510; these numbers are also written in pencil, but are not circled.
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- Coll 17/16(1) 'Iraq. The Assyrian Crisis'
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- 445v:446r, 496r:497v
- Author
- Cornwallis, Sir Kinahan
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