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The Deepening of the Crisis

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The Diplomacy of Partition

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Abstract

After the virtual breakdown of Niger Commission talks in 1896, the subject of the Say-Barruwa line was shelved in both Paris and London. References to the necessity of delimiting it were occasionally made in the course of normal diplomatic exchange.1 But in general the issue rested in limbo.

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Hirshfield, C. (1979). The Deepening of the Crisis. In: The Diplomacy of Partition. Studies in Contemporary History, vol 2. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-9275-7_4

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