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'Mosul Question, Lausanne 1922-1923 and after - Papers, despatches, speeches - Hotel de la Mer at Lausanne - Correspondence about oil' [‎155r] (307/501)

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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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Mosul voted almost unanimously for unity and the formation
of a single State. In 1921 the whole of the Arabs in the
Vilayet, the Hurds of the adjacent districts and the whole
of the Turcomans (with the exception of Kirkuk), voted
again for inclusion in the State of Iraq, and for the Emir
Feisal as their King.
(5) The Armistice line of October 30th, 1918,
is arbitrarily taken as the dividing line South of which
only a plebiscite may be held. On that day British forces
were about 30 miles South of Mosul which they entered
immediately afterv/ards. It is thus absurd to claim, as
the Pact claims, that the Arabs who live in the entire
territory South of the Armistice line may dispose four years
laterof their fate, while the Arab population of Mosul who
form more than one-third of the Arab population of the whole
Vilayet should be deprived of that right.
The Turkish Delegation and the Pact ignore another
Article in the Armistice which enabled Allied troops to
occupy strategic points outside the Armistice lineal Every
one will admit that Mosul is such a strategic pointy
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( 6 ) Isrnet Pasha An Ottoman title used after the names of certain provincial governors, high-ranking officials and military commanders. has himself calmly claimed in the^i^
I Commission that the Turkish Delegation do not recognise the
Armistice of Mudros of October 30th, 1918, (although the
Allied Delegations have never admitted this claim) A^ot
■At
almost in the same breath “Wa&y basej claim to Aosul
on an argument dependent upon that Armistice.
(7) Do European treaty made since the Armistice
of 1918 and probably no treaty before that date has ever
based the new frontier which it Iq^ys down upon the lines
of occupation laid down in the Armistice which preceded
them.
( 8 ) The use of the v/ords "Ottoman Moslem
majority

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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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