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By twenty-nine votes to nil, with seven abstentions, the Budget Committee of the League Assembly recently decided to refer to the Supervisory Commission the proposal regarding credits for the settlement in Syria of Assyrians from Irak. The vote means that success has so far been achieved, says the "Daily Telegraph."
The deficit which the League will be called upon to make up is about £100,000. Dr. Burgin, the United Kingdom representative, had asked the committee to take a budgetary decision in favour of the Assyrians.
"This involves," he said, "asking the committee to accept the responsibility for providing the funds necessary to complete the scheme and specifically to approve the insertion of a sum in the budget of the League."
He cited figures showing that the cost of the whole scheme would be £853,000. This included £300,000 for draining and irrigation work. The French Government had proposed to bear £86,500 of the cost itself; the rest being refunded by the refugees themselves in accordance with a scale to be arranged.
If the .plan were adopted about £600,000 would have to be found. The United Kingdom had guaranteed to pay £250,000'0f tills sum.
Dr. Burgin said he hoped the Irak Government would make a similar t>ayment. The rest wduld have to be voted by members of the League. Unless the League paid its share it would not be possible to carry out this humanitarian work to a successful conclusion. He proposed that the necessary funds should be taken from the League's surplus.
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Evening Post, Volume CXX, Issue 115, 11 November 1935, Page 3
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