BRITAIN’S IRAQ MANDATE

Evening Star, Issue 20993, 6 January 1932, Page 6

BRITAIN’S IRAQ MANDATE

TERMINATION EXPECTED THIS YEAR (British Official Wireless.) Press Association— By Telegraph—Copyrights RUGBY, January 6. (Received January 6, at 11 a.m.) 1 The League of Nations Secretariat' has published the report of the Permanent Commission on Mandates, Concerning the British proposal to proceed with the emancipation of Iraq, after reviewing the action of the British Government, and the guarantees given by the Government to assure the entry of Iraq into tho League, the rep?rt sets out in detail tho conditions which appear to the commission to be essential for the termination of the mandate by Britain. The most important of these conditions is for the protection of minorities and national*; as well as for a guarantee of the privileges to foreigners, liberty of conscience, and the maintenance of the international conventions. Finally the report states , that the treaty of alliance between Bn- | tain and Iraq docs not injure the independence of Iraq. The commission’s report is likely to ho approved by the League Council on January 25, and tho September Assembly is expected to admit Iraq to the League. Britain’s mandate will automatically terminate on such admission.