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Winston Churchill's note on the Baqubah refugees, 7 June 1920

Place: Baqubah · today Iraq
Date: 1920

War Office minute initialled by Winston Churchill, then Secretary of State for War, on 7 June 1920, asking whether the Assyrian refugees at Baqubah were being repatriated and when they would be "off our hands".

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The National Archives (UK), via its blog "Britain and Assyrian refugees after the First World War" (16 June 2020)

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Winston Churchill's note on the Baqubah refugees, 7 June 1920

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