Word: mosul
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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During the week some excitement was caused by the movement of a Turkish force across part of the French mandated territory and into the Mosul region. Under the Treaty of Angora between France and Turkey, however, such movements of troops are sanctioned under certain restrictions, which were apparently not violated in this case...
...striking feature was Mr. Baldwin's assertion that "Great Britain means to stay in Mosul and Iraq . . . and will cooperate with the Iraq Government to insure the stability and progress of that country until such time as our help is no longer needed...
...denied that a Turko-British crisis is impending, declaring that Britain is still willing to arbitrate the question of whether Iraq or Turkey shall eventually possess Mosul, indicated that he believes the League of Nations and the Hague Court will be able to induce Turkey to fulfill the obligation which Englishmen consider she assumed at Brussels last October...
Bluffing on the part of the Angora Government began by calling four more classes to the Turkish colors, the massing of four divisions of cavalry at Jezire-ibn-Omar, 20 miles behind the Mosul frontier, and mild efforts to prepare the Dardanelles against a possible naval threat from Britain. The Jumhuiet, famed Turkish Government journal, announced: "They are merely measures of national defense . . . since the emasculate League of Nations wallows as a mere servile instrument of British dictatorship. A recourse to arms remains as our only means of defending our rights...
...Eastern waters. L. C. M. S. Amery, Secretary of State for the Colonies, who precipitated the break with the Turks at Geneva (TIME, Sept. 28), almost paraphrased Turkish utterances: "I can imagine no action more fatal to the honor of Britain than for us to abandon our rights in Mosul...