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...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...
...Council of the League of Nations, sitting at Brussels, Belgian capital, had a busy and significant week. Before it, appeared Fethi Bey, Turkish representative, and Lord Parmoor, Lord President of the Council, British representative, pledged to accept the decision of the Council on Turko-British dispute over the Irak-Turkish boundary (TIME...
History. Not during 6,000 years of history had Egypt claimed suzerainty over the Sudan until the year 1820 when Mehemet Ali, "barbarian of genius," and Sultan Mahmud II of Turkey succeeded in conquering the country. But even this victory was only nominal; for the Turko-Egyptians were never able to assert complete mastery over the country which they contemptuously called Bilad-es-Sudan, "country of the blacks." In 1882 came the revolt of the Mahdi, "Guide of Islam," aimed specifically at the Egyptians whose corrupt practices were thoroughly despised. The regime of the Mahdi was later replaced by that...
...Scrutiny of a British communication on Iraq in which the Turko-British disagreement is likely to figure...
Ismet Pasha and Joseph G. Grew, U. S. Observer, settled the Turko-American Agreement. The U. S. A. receives all the privileges of the Straits Convention (regulation of shipping on the Bosphorus) without signing it. Mutually satisfactory set-were made of the questions of taxation on U. S. companies, protection of Christian minorities, damages to Americans during...