GAINS ITS FREEDOM.
IRAQ JOINS THE LEAGUE. GENEVA, May 20. The League of Nations Council at Geneva to-day approved a report providing tliart, as "soon as Iraq has accepted the convention covering various guarantees recommended by the Permanent Mandates Commission, Grea.t Britain will be able to terminate her mandate, and Iraq will become an independent member of the League. Iraq will thus qualify for admission at the next plenary Assembly in September, a* she is prepared to accept the draft declaration. In this she undertakes to guarantee protection for racial, linguistic and religious minorities, the safeguarding of foreigners' legal interests, the guaranteeing of financial obligations contracted before the mandate ends, the protection of religious missions, respect for international conventions, and the most favoured nation treatment to League members for ten years.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXIII, Issue 121, 24 May 1932, Page 7
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