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The British deep state insisted that the issue of Mosul be taken to the League
of Nations because it was well aware that this institution, which it kept un-
der pressure, would make decisions that conformed to its requests.

Lord Curzon says a referendum can never be accepted. Why? Because it is a
painstaking process. You have to find donkeys, you have to find papers, load
the papers onto the donkeys, send them up to the mountains, go to the Kurds

there and ask them 'do you want to stay in Turkey? Do you want to stay un-
der British mandate in Iraq?' 'These Kurds', I'm repeating the exact words in
the document 'These Kurds will eat those papers'. That's why they say, just

forget about the referendum. Do you know why they are doing that? Do you
know the reasons behind that? That region sends regular intelligence to the

Foreign Office and therefore to Lord Curzon. I have read hundreds of intelli-
gence reports. They all underline one truth: If under the circumstances of the
day, a referendum was held and Kurds in Mosul were asked 'who would you

wish to join?' 99% would choose Turkey. These are in British intelligence re-
ports. British said 'we'll lose Mosul, so we can never let Turks carry out a ref-

erendum here and ask the Kurds what they want'… 385

Mastermind: The Truth of the British Deep State Revealed