Word: mosul
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Attempts to settle the question as to whether Turkey or Great Britain shall dominate Mosul (TIME, Oct. 5 et ante) were featured last week by a modicum of practical action and the continuance of heated bluffing at Angora and London...
Action was confined to two definite announcements. The Permanent Court of International Justice at The Hague set Oct. 22 as the date to decide (at the request of the Assembly of the League of Nations) whether the League Council has authority to adjudicate the Mosul matter. Meanwhile the Council of the League despatched General Laidoner, onetime Commander-in-Chief of the Esthonian Army, at the head of a League commission to investigate British charges that the Turks have been deporting Christians over the Mosul frontier...
League Factors. The League, having turned over to the Hague Court the question of whether the Council of the League has power to definitely settle how much of the Mosul district shall be Turkish and how much shall be a British protectorate, washed its hands of any immediate settlement. No decision can be expected from the Hague for at least three months. And opinion differed as to whether this action "prolonged a serious situation" or "postponed a crisis...
Urged by the British, who complained of "Christian deportations and kidnappings conducted by the Turks across the Mosul frontier," the League next announced that it would send a commission to investigate these deportation charges. Turkey then declared before the League that she would refuse to permit such a League committee to enter Turkish territory, branded the British charges as false, and made counter charges of British excursions over the disputed frontier...
...through the regular diplomatic channels. 2) From Angora, Mustafa Kemal Pasha, President-Dictator of Turkey, was quoted as follows: "Our army is ready and its morale is excellent. If we should have to fight-which I don't think likely-we shall certainly not shirk the issue. . . . Mosul is Turkish . . . nothing can change that . . . we will never abandon that view." 3) In London feeling ran high against Premier Baldwin "for not having read an English paper during his recent vacation at Aix-les-Bains." It was implied that he had let the British representatives who dealt with the Turks...