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'Mosul Question, Lausanne 1922-1923 and after - Papers, despatches, speeches - Hotel de la Mer at Lausanne - Correspondence about oil' [‎183r] (363/501)

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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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in the district and so obviously harmful would have been the
economic effects of a more or less racial frontier, that
the plebiscite commission some weeks before the holding
of the plebiscite advised the Conference of Ambassadors to
the
fix a frontier, which was subsequently accepted by/Czechs
and^under protes^ the Poles, - without the proposed
plebiscite ever being held. In the case of Upper Silesia ,
the same agitation, propaganda and constant deferment of
the date of the plebiscite took place, but the bloodshed was
greater. It will be remembered that the voting by communes
left large blocks of Poles and Germans on each side of the
frontier and, owing to an insoluble controversy on the
Plebiscite Commission and between the Govemmenti represented
on that Commission as to haw the frontier should be drawn
properly to conform to the voting, the issue was passed to the
Council of the League of Nations by the Allied Governments.
The result was a frontier which certainly did not satisfy one
of the parties to the dispute, and the boundary could almost
certainly have been drawn as, if not more, scientifically and
with much less expense, friction and bloodshed, if no
plebiscite had been held. These examples suffice to show
that experience since the armistice undoubtedly tells against
the fixing of frontiers by plebiscite.
(d) If an attempt were made to repeat the experi
ment for the northern frontier of Iraq, all the disadvantages
which the above experience demonstrates would be enormously
enhanced. The northern part of the vilayet vhere the
frontier would probably run is relatively spaxsely populated.
Much of the population is nomadic and a plebiscite would
be much affected therefore by the date chosen. Most of the
Kurdish...

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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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