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30 August 1944, CIA Research Tool (CREST) document, National
Archives and Records Administration, College Park, MD [NARA].
- The Kurds in May 1941, 27 July 1941, Iraq Political Situation, 1939–
1941, File 3, Box 2, Cecil John Edmonds Collection, GB165-0095,
MECA. For his expert opinions about the Kurds, see ‘CJ’ Edmonds’ let-
ters to Sir Kinahan Cornwallis (note 60). For anyone wishing to explore
the history of British policy and the Kurdish question, I recommend Awat
Asadi, Der Kurdistan-Irak-Konflikt: Der Weg zur Autonomie seit dem
Ersten Weltkrieg (Berlin: Schlier, 2007), 136–48; Wadie Jwaideh, The
Kurdish National Movement: Its Origins and Development (Syracuse, NY:
Syracuse University Press, 2006), passim; Daniel Silverfarb, Britain’s
Informal Empire in the Middle East: A Case Study of Iraq, 1929–1941 (New
York: Oxford University Press, 1986), 1–19, 21–29, 31–55, 73–80,
94–109; Stephanie K. Wichhart, ‘A “New Deal” for the Kurds: Britain’s
Kurdish Policy in Iraq, 1941–45’, The Journal of Imperial and
Commonwealth History 39, no. 5 (December 2011): 815–31; and
Fieldhouse’s introduction to Wallace Lyons’ memoir in D.K. Fieldhouse,
ed., Kurds, Arabs and Britons: The Memoir of Wallace Lyon in Iraq, 1918–
44 (London: I.B. Tauris, 2002), 33–48, as well as the memoir itself in
Kurds, 59–218 (Fieldhouse was Lyon’s son-in-law).
- Edmonds to Cornwallis, 12 July 1941, Iraq Political Situation, 1939–
1941, File 3, Box 2, Cecil John Edmonds Collection, GB165-0095,
MECA.
- Dawson-Shepherd to All Representatives Iraq, 23 February 1945, AIR
29/2513, TNA.
- An Appreciation of the Security Situation in Iraq in the Near Future and in
the Post-war Period, 14 July 1945, KV 4/223, TNA.
- Ibid.
ADRIAN O’SULLIVAN
