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British report on Mar Eshai Shimun in Washington, 1946

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British report on Mar Eshai Shimun in Washington, 1946

Place
Washington, D.C. · today United States
Date
1946
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Typed letter of 12 June 1946 to the Foreign Office's Eastern Department reporting on Mar Eshai Shimun, the Assyrian Patriarch: his US visa, a call on him at the Statler Hotel in Washington, and his refusal to support relatives left in Cyprus.

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Source

Qatar Digital Library (British Library: India Office Records and Private Papers)

East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department · Qatar Digital Library usage terms: "Open Government Licence".

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