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'Mosul Question, Lausanne 1922-1923 and after - Papers, despatches, speeches - Hotel de la Mer at Lausanne - Correspondence about oil' [‎14r] (27/501)

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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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the Southern oilfields round Mosul, loyalties in
itself implies the sovereignty of the Fewer to whom they
are paid over the territory in question. I therefore
took the opportunity again to explain to Mukhtar exactly
what we meant, namely, that as the proposal to enabla
the Turks to participate in the Turkish petroleum Company
raised a complicated issue, we had thought that a better
arrangement might he made whereby the Iraq Government
would allow some percentage of the royalties, which were
only due to her as the sovereign of the country in which
the oilfields are situated, to be paid over by the
Company to the Turkish Government; but that there was no
question of any of the oilfields remaining in Turlieh terri
tory.
I pointed out that it was absurd to expect us to ^ry
to make this difficult arrangement to satisfy Turkey over
the Oil, if in return we were not to receive the T quid pro
quo 1 which Mukhtar himself at the last meeting had given
us to believe that we were certainly to receive - namely,
the settlement of the frontier i.e. the present a.dministra,-
tive frontier with some local rectifications, in our favour.
Turkey was asking both for the frontier and for participa
tion in the Oil. I also asked him how he could expect that
the Company would be willing to contemplate giving such
advantages to Turkey if in fact she was not to receive in
return the security which she desired from remaining inside
the frontiers of the British mandated State.
Mukhtar enquired why if this same Company was willing
to work the oilfields in Turkey before the war, they would
not be willing to do so to-day. I said that I did not
wish to go over the past more than was necessaiy, but
leaving.••

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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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