RE: Boycott Israel
※→ P F Tinmore, et al,
Oh - WOW.
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Britain did not extend sovereignty; that is true. But the "future" was in the hands of the Allied Powers.
Not so. The Turkish Empire had rights and title (sovereignty) until the Treaty of Lausanne then sovereignty went directly to the inhabitants of the respective new states. Nobody else had any sovereignty.
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On more time: read it carefully...
(See Posting # 5697)
You are confusing the disposition of "nationality" with the disposition of "territory." Nowhere in the Treaty of Lausanne does it say: "sovereignty went directly to the inhabitants of the respective new states"
Treaty of Lusanne (1923) in part said:
ARTICLE 16.
Turkey hereby renounces all rights and title whatsoever over or respecting the territories situated outside the frontiers laid down in the present Treaty and the islands other than those over which her sovereignty is recognized by the said Treaty, the future of these territories and islands being settled or to be settled by the parties concerned.
The provisions of the present Article do not prejudice any special arrangements arising from neighborly relations which have been or may be concluded between Turkey and any limitrophe countries.
Section
II - Nationality, deals with the the people such that no one is considered stateless
(ie a refugee). It does not deal with the territorial disposition or citizen authority over the sate.
It must also be understood that the territory
(to which the Mandate for Palestine applied) was NOT a self-governing institution. The administration of citizenship was a responsibility of the Allied Powers through the Mandatory
(Britain).
Most Respectfully,
R