IRAQ DEVELOPMENT.

Auckland Star, Volume LXXII, Issue 86, 12 April 1941, Page 7

IRAQ DEVELOPMENT.

New Government Will Honour Treaty \V <(h Britain. UNCONSTITUTIONAL ACTION? iIN-.-d. 11l a.ni.l LONDON. April 11. •\ friiiii It.i-J.ul states that lit fl ::i iiii-n i. )as oloi-iivl Slie.if Sharaf a- l;<-ciit. Say id Ali. t lio new 1 i :inc M• i• -It*i". reafli:*:in-«l the new < <'\rriiii i-in <),-ti-rininat imi to roMM-ct ir tenia! io«ia I en;;a j.-eweiit -. pari i.-ularl v the 11 ai| treaty with Britain.

An earlier Briti-l, Official Wireless

' c -tatcl that according' to infor-mati-m I'n.m l'.agdad. Say id Kashid Aii tailed to -e. nre the -upport of anv i.'-p.in-i!de I• a■ | Parliament after forc-

ing the Hegel,l 1-, flee. Deputi— already iu llagdad ;-ad not been ellnwed tn leave the li'iital. and ]ii'e--uro had been brought to bear on proviii.-ial deputies by I'H-a 1 reprc-entatiNcs of the inilitary .i'l'.ta t.. force them to return.

I nd-r the con-t it ut ion of Iraq Par1' nnciit can i• 111 v be summoned by Hoval d"cn—. 1* a sji id .Mi. however, ha- not 1»'. it at cd. on hi, own rc-pon-ibilit v. tn

order I 'a I lia nient t o meet. a ppa rent 1 v for the pin |.o-e of deposing the Resent.

It i- pointed "lit in l.nmlm) that any nil-el int.- dt tin- Iratj Parliament under ~H'l> « ii'-innMam-es will )ir» iincon*t ittiticnial ami its proceedings wholly illegal. At tin- -anic tinn» it i< learned that the represent at ive at Bagdad of tlio Koyal I'-.-M'f i.i ii (■<i\ eminent lias liecn instructod to adopt an attitude of re>erve toward all tlie-o event", similar to that alreadv adopted liv t lie ives of the I lirki-lt. American and British tloverntnent s.