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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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POLITICO
The Turkish Delegation claims that the Kurdo-
Turkish majority of the Mosul Vilayet and a large part of
the Arab population desires to return to Iraq because of
its political or historical affinities with Turkish mile.
Our answer to this is briefly that this may be
true of the Turks for the reasons already stated in the
above note on the ethnography of the Vilayet, but that the
result of a plebscite conducted throughout Iraq in 1919
gave an unanimous vote on the point that Basra, Bagdad and
Mosul should be united and form one State.
The Turkish Delegation claims that the hollowness
of this vote was shown by the insurrection of 1919-20
which was put down with great bloodshed by the troops of
the Mandatory, Great Britain.
Our answer to this is that this rising pas partly
due to propaganda from outside among uninformed tribes,
and the natural disinclination of what had hitherto
an
been a largely anarc 1:41 c population to submit to/orderly
administration who collected taxes and ppent them for the
welfare of the people. In any case the administration of
that time was largely military and provisional, and it
was not until 1921 that, in accordance with our obligations
under the mandate, a real Arab administration was set up.
On the arrival of the Emir Pei sal in that country
in 1921, the Moslem Arabs showed unmistakably their desire
to be connected with the Arab Government at Ba€& a cl- and to
be under the rulership of Kir® Feisal. His kingship was
supported by the whole of the Moslem !T liwa TT (zakho, Dohuk
and Aqrah included), by the Erbil "liwa" (in spite of
its largely Turkoman and Kurdish population) and by the
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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
Author
East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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