"ALL MY WORK AT LAUSANNE WAS DONE SITTING DOWN" CURZON (George, Marquis, 1859-1925, Viceroy of India and Foreign Minister)

Fine Autograph Letter signed to "My dear HUTTON" (The Very Reverend William Holden, 1860-1930, Historian and Dean of Winchester from 1919), replying to a request and begging him "to spare me. I have never been cured from my phlebitis & when May comes I am to go for a course at French baths ..." continuing that public meetings are "a great trial to me & I invariably suffer afterwards. All my work at Lausanne was done sitting down. By all means ask the French Ambassador. Why you should have a statue of Joan of Arc at Winchester I do not quite see. But it seems the popular thing nowadays to commemorate those who fought against us ...", 4 sides 8vo.,with original autograph envelope, 1 Carlton House Terrace, 3rd March

Curzon was Viceroy of India from 1899 to 1905, during which time he created the territory of Eastern Bengal and Assam. After returning to Britain, he served as Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs from 1919 to 1924. In the negotiations after World War I, he proposed the Curzon Line, which later became the border between Poland and the Soviet Union.
The statue of Joan of Arc was dedicated by the Dean of Winchester in 1923, three years after her canonisation and nearly five centuries after her death.
The Conference of Lausanne was held in Switzerland, during 1922 and 1923. Its purpose was the negotiation of a treaty to replace the Treaty of Sèvres, which, under the new government of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk was no longer recognized by Turkey. Lord Curzon, the British Foreign Secretary, was the co-ordinator of the conference, which he dominated. France and Italy had assumed that the Chanak Crisis had caused British prestige with Turkey to be irrevocably damaged, but they were shocked to discover that Turkish respect for Britain was undiminished.


Item Date:  1923

Stock No:  40772     

                


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