The Assyrian Affair Of 1933 (I)

International Journal of Middle East Studies

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 1974, Pages 161-176

  Husry, Khaldun S ^a  

^a NONE   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 84976018236     PISSN: 00207438     EISSN: 14716380     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S002074380002780X     Document Type: Article

References (40)

1. Albert Hourani, Minorities in the Arab World (London, 1947), p. 100.
2. House of Commons Debate, vol. 255, cols. 1796–7.
3. Al-Akha' al-Watani, 2 and 4 August 1931.
4. Thomas Lyell, The Ins and Outs of Mesopotamia (London, 1923). By maintaining that Iraq left to itself ‘ would become a Middle-East Bolshevist Power’, Lyell also anticipated some British arguments of the Cold War and Baghdad Pact era.
5. House of Commons Debate, vol. 255, cols. 1775–1781.
6. Great Britain, Report on the Administration of Iraq for 1931, p. 15.
7. F.O. 371/16887, E 4913.
8. F.O. 371/16011, E 2127.
9. Great Britain, Report on the Administration of Iraq for 1931, p. 15.
10. Great Britain, Special Report on the Progress of Iraq, 1920–1931, p. 263.
11. Mahmud Al-Durra, al-Qadiya al-Kurdiya [The Kurdish Question], (Beirut, 1963), p. 84.
12. Great Britain, Report on the Administration of Iraq for 1931, pp. 15-16; Hassani, History of Cabinets, vol. III, pp. 129–32.
13. F.O. 371/16889.
14. R. S. Stafford, The Tragedy of the Assyrians (London, 1935), p. 70.
15. F.O. 371/16913. 4 Burgoyne, p. 318.
16. Ernest Main, 'Iraq and the Assyrians, 1932–1933 ', Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, vol. xx (October 1933), p. 665. Main was the former editor of The Times of Mesopotamia and Baghdad Times, and the correspondent of the Daily Mail in Iraq.
17. Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, vol. xx, p. 161.
18. Stafford, p. 105.
19. The British Report on the Administration of Iraq, for 1924 (London, 1925), p. 36, does not give the number of Iraqis killed in this outbreak. Stafford, page 47, puts the number at fifty. 5 Stafford, p. 125.
20. The following account is based mainly on ‘ Brief for British Representatives in the League of Nations’, dated 19 September 1932, F.O. 371/16036, E4736; ‘Iraq, Annual Report, 1932’, F.O. 371/16922; and Great Britain, Report on the Administration of Iraq, 1932 (London, 1933).
21. Humphrys, 14 July 1932, E 3512. 12
22. F. O. 371/16036, E 4812.
23. Minutes of the Twenty-Second Session of the Permanent Mandates Commission p.375.
24. Stafford, p. 135.
25. Report of the Intelligence Branch of the Iraqi Army, dated 21 June 1933: File fa'/17.
26. Kedouri, The Chatham House Version, p. 247.
27. Government of Iraq, Correspondence Relating to Assyrian Settlement (Baghdad, 1934), p. 8, no. 8. This is known as the Iraqi Blue Book. The authenticity of the British documents which it contains is vouched for by Stafford, p. 154, and questioned by no one.
28. The Blue Book, p. 9, no. 11.
29. Ernest Main, Journal of the Royal Central Asian Society, vol. xx (October 1933), p. 666.
30. Memorandum, Situation in Iraq…Position on August 18th: F.O. 371/16887.
31. Stafford, pp. 135–6.
32. Ogilvie-Forbes to Sir John Simon, Received 25 July 1933: F.O. 371/16883.
33. Stafford, pp. 155–6.
34. F.O. 371/16891.
35. Memorandum by the Administrative Inspector, Mosul and Arbil Liwas, dated 7 August 1933: F.O. 371/16866.
36. F.O. 371/16888, E 5045; F.O. 371/16889, E 5178; General Headlam's report: F.O. 371/16891.
37. Stafford, p. 158.
38. E.g. ‘Iraq, Annual Report, 1933’: F.O. 371/17871.
39. F.O. 371/16886, E 4773; Stafford, p. 164; Ibrahim al-Rawi, Min al-Thawra al-'Arabiya al-Kubra ila al-Iraq al-Hadith Dhikrayat [From the Great Arab Revolt to Modern Iraq, Memoirs], (Beirut, 1969), p. 153.
40. The preceding account of the engagement at Dayrbaun has been based mainly on Stafford's book and General Headlam's report in ‘Iraq, Annual Report, 1933’; and Ernest Main's article in Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, vol. xx.