Fwd from Clinton Fernandes: Lord Curzon

[Louis Proyect <lnp3@xxxxxxxxx>]

> Lord Curzon also referred to an "Arab facade" - a state "ruled and
> administered under British guidance and controlled by a native Mohammedan,
> and, as far as possible, by an Arab staff".  Curzon's preference was that
> "there should be no actual incorporation of conquered territory in the
> dominions of the conqueror, but that the absorption may be veiled by
> constitutional fictions as a protectorate, a sphere of influence, a buffer
> State, and so on".
>
> Source: William Stivers, Supremacy and Oil: Iraq, Turkey, and the
> Anglo-American World Order, 1918-1930, Ithaca: Cornell University Press,
> 1982, pp. 28 and 34.
>
> CF

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