Word: mosul
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Discussion of the question, which has Mosul as its objective and which consists of a dispute between Turkey and Britain over whether Mosul should continue to belong to Irak or be retransferred to Turkey, was postponed for a later session of the Council...
When the Lausanne Treaty was signed last year (TIME, Aug. 6) there were many things left unsettled, and one of them was the Mosul question.* In the palace of the Turkish Admiralty on the Golden Horn, representatives of Britain, France and Turkey assembled to settle the thorny problem of Mosul. After much wrangling the conference broke up, a settlement having been impossible. Britain will take the matter before the League, but at present the Turks protest against such action...
...Mosul is the centre of important oil fields and oil is the leitmotif in the Allied concerto. Officially, however, Britain claims the right of protecting Mosul by virtue of a League of Nations mandate; Turkey claims it on ethnographical ground; France has a purely financial interest dating back to the Ottoman régime...
...other newspaperman, and don't volunteer any extra work, don't do any espionage, and don't get excited. If some bruiser of a night city editor sends you at one o'clock in the morning to ask John D. Rockefeller what he thinks of the oil situation in Mosul just go home and about two hours later telephone the bruiser that Mr. Rockefeller is inaccessible at that hour...
Britons and Turks were reported to be preparing for a conference in Constantinople "to thrash out the Mosul question." When the Allied differences with Turkey were patched up at Lausanne (TiME, Aug. 6) one of the problems left over for further discussions was that of Mosul. The technical argument over Mosul is: Does it belong to Iraq or to Turkey? The real trouble is much deeper than that. Mosul has become in diplomatic language a mere pseudonym for oil, because around that city are rich oil fields. Britain has a protectorate over Iraq and supports the Iraquians (Arab inhabitants...