IRAQ SITUATION.

Auckland Star, Volume LX, Issue 223, 20 September 1929, Page 7

IRAQ SITUATION.

GREATLY CHANGED. Britain To Support Entry Into League Of Nations. NEW CABINET FORMED. (Australian Press Assn.—United Service.) (Received 1.30 p.m.) BAGDAD, September 19. The political situation in Iraq has greatly changed following the British Government's offer to recommend unconditionally Iraq's entrance to the League of Nations in 1932, whereby all parties have been placated. A new Cabinet has been formed with Sir Abdul Sadun as Premier. , In a communique it is announced that the late Sir Gilbert Clayton impressed on the Labour Cabinet the advisability of an early decision on Iraq's demand to enter the League as a means of terminating the existing treaties. It is regretted that the British reply was en route while Sir Gilbert Clayton was dying as the result of an accident on the polo field. It would have given him pleasure to communicate it personally to Iraq.

The British reply also announces the decision not to proceed with the 1927 treaty, but that it is necessary to conclude a treaty before 1932 to regulate Anglo-Iraq relations. A draft treaty will bo prepared based on the AngloEgyptian settlement.

Sir Abdul Sadun, in accepting the Premiership, said the oiler satisfied part of the aspirations of Iraq as a nation which would accept nothing in the long run falling short of complete independence. The new situation is regarded as the direct result of the Labour Cabinet's new policy in the Middle East. The Cabinet includes Yassin Pasha, who is closely identified with the Nationalists.