LAUSANNE CONFERENCE
LORD CURZON’S FLAT DENIAL. LABOUR MEMBER’S CHARGE. LONDON, August 2. Lord Ourz.on flatly denies'the allegation made by Mr T. Johnston, a Labour member, during the debate in the House of Commons on the Middle East, on July 29, that he spent a considerable portion of his time when at the Lausanne Conference fighting on behalf of British interests in Mosul oil fields. “There is not a word of truth in the allegation,” declares Lord Curzon, in a letter to The Times, in which he emphasises that his attitude with regard to the Mosul question is perfectly well known, nnd that it was not even remotely connected with oil j n . tercsts.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 19254, 19 August 1924, Page 7
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113LAUSANNE CONFERENCE Otago Daily Times, Issue 19254, 19 August 1924, Page 7
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