TOWN EDITION

Feilding Star, Volume 9, Issue 3849, 4 October 1932, Page 8

TOWN EDITION

IRAQ’S INDfirENDK\( K TjEAGL’EKS’ CONGRATULATIONS lIAVVV DAY FOR DELEGATE BRITAIN’* CDMI'I.HTE AXSWUR TO CYX’ICS AND SCEPTICS fAust anti N.Z Cable) (Receiver] Oct. 4. 2 p.m.) London. Oct. 3. The Press Association’s special corTcsisindent at Geneva states flint tnost of (lie League Assembly's lime to-day was occupied in felicitating Iraq upon ils admittance to the League. Most of the speakers, including delegates from Turkey. France ami Italy, congratulated Great Britain on her skill in bringing Iraq so quickly in a state of independence. Sir John Simon, in an effective sjieech said Ivnqu's arrival at nationhood after 12 years under a mandate was the best answer to cynics who had hinted that flic mandate was merely a cloak for Britain’s colonisation and annexation.