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The British Withdrawal from the Bagdad Railway Project in April 1903*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 February 2009

Richard M. Francis
Richard M. Francis
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Department of International Politics, Aberystwyth
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The Historical Journal , Volume 16 , Issue 1 , March 1973 , pp. 168 - 178
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1973

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4 F.O. 78/5322, [B.D.], II, 214. The credibility of this memorandum is also questionable as Lansdowne acknowledged an international character for the line would prevent any danger arising from German control.

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6 Memorandum by Lansdowne, 7 Mar. 1902, F.O. 78/5322; Lansdowne to Lascelles, 18 Mar. 1902, F.O. 78/5322, [B.D.], II, 204.

7 Memorandum by Dawkins, II Sept. 1902, Lansdowne MSS, F.O. 800/145/81/2.

8 Memorandum by Dawkins, II Sept. 1902, etc., Lansdowne MSS, F.O. 800/145/81/82/83.

9 Lansdowne to Cassel, 4 Feb. 1903, F.O. 78/5322, [B.D.], II, 206; Lansdowne MSS, F.O. 800/143/61/62; Dawkins to Curzon, 4 Mar. 1903, Curzon MSS EUR F.III/179/217.

10 Lansdowne MSS, F.O. 800/145/94; memorandum by Sanderson, 23 Feb. 1903, F.O. 78/5322, [B.D.], II, 207.

11 Lansdowne MSS, F.O. 800/145/94; Cranborne to Sandars, 17 Apr. 1903, Balfour MSS 49757, vide Appendix.

12 Cranborne to Sandars, 17 Apr. 1903, Balfour MSS 49757.

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15 Lansdowne to Balfour, 12 Apr. 1903, Balfour MSS 49728.

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17 ‘…one wishes that some accident might throw us out - or at any events bring on a general election - so that the air might be cleared ’, 22 Apr. 1903, Mrs Chamberlain's 1903 correspondence, Joseph Chamberlain MSS; Curzon MSS EUR F.III/179/223.

18 Bagdad Railway 1903 envelope, J. Chamberlain MSS.

19 Cranborne to Sandars, 17 Apr. 1903, Balfour MSS 49757.

20 Bagdad Railway 1903 envelope, J. Chamberlain

21 J. Chamberlain MSS 7/4/1/4.

22 House of Commons, Parliamentary Debates, 4th ser., cxxx, 1247–8; Balfour MSS 49747, 7 Apr. 1903, notes; Hamilton MSS EUR D.510/14/22.

23 Lansdowne MSS, F.O. 800/145/116.

24 Curzon MSS EUR F.III/179/223; 22 Apr. 1903, F.O. 78/5322.

25 Chirol to Strachey, 26, 29 Apr. 1903, Chirol envelope, St Loe Strachey MSS; diary entry, 21 Apr. 1903, E. W. Hamilton MSS 48680; Curzon MSS EUR F.II/179/223; Lansdowne MSS, F.O. 800/145/116; Lansdowne to Revelstoke, 24 Apr. 1903, F.O. 78/5322.

26 22 Apr. 1903, F.O. 78/5322; Lansdowne MSS, F.O. 800/145/106.

27 House of Commons, Parliamentary Debates, 4th ser., CXXI, 222.

28 Lansdowne to O'Conor, 15 Dec. 1903, F.O. 78/5322 [B.D.], II, 224.