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Light blue line: Curzon Line "B" as proposed by Lord Curzon in 1919. Dark blue line: Curzon Line "A" as proposed by the Soviet Union in 1940. Pink: Formerly German provinces annexed by Poland after World War II. Grey: Pre–World War II Polish territory east of the Curzon Line annexed by the Soviet Union after the war.
Lord Curzon, the British Foreign Secretary, was the co-ordinator of the conference, which he dominated. [2] 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.
In 1903, Lord Curzon, then the Viceroy of India visited Bahrain and highlighted the need to reform the customs -which were in a state of chaos- by appointing a British director. [n 18] The ruler, Shaikh Isa resisted what he considered an interference, after which Curzon told him they were persistent in their demands. [90]
The Honourable Sir David Robert Gilmour, 4th Baronet, FRSL (born 14 November 1952) is a British writer and historian. The son of the Conservative politician Ian Gilmour, he is the author of numerous historical works, including award-winning biographies of Lord Curzon (winner of the Duff Cooper Prize) and Rudyard Kipling (winner of the Elizabeth Longford Prize for Historical Biography).
The Glorious Fault: The Life of Lord Curzon. New York: Harcourt, Brace. OCLC 396977. Rose, Kenneth (1970). Superior Person: A Portrait of Curzon and His Circle in Late Victorian England. New York: Weidenfeld & Nicolson. ISBN 978-1-84212-233-4. Thesiger, Edward P. (December 1909). "The House of Lords: Its Powers, Duties and Procedures".
However, Curzon's plan did not work at the time as intended because it only further encouraged the extremists within Congress to resist and rebel against the colonial government. Historians like Sekhar Bandyopadhyay have argued how Curzon's plan only further "magnified the nationalist angst". [ 11 ]
The Murdaugh murder saga and its brutal twists have been covered just about daily for more than two years in thousands of newspaper and television news stories, in podcasts and documentaries.
On 2 January 1917, aged 37, she became the second wife of Lord Curzon. On the occasion of their marriage, Lord Curzon bought Bodiam Castle in East Sussex, a 14th-century building that had been gutted during the English Civil War. They restored it extensively, then bequeathed it to the National Trust. [13]