BRITAIN AND IRAQ.

Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 7 October 1925, Page 6

BRITAIN AND IRAQ.

HER FUTURE POLICY. EXTENDING THE MANDATE. BY CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYEHIGT. LONDON, Oct. 6. Lobby correspondents attach importance to the first, meeting of Cabinet to-day after the recess. It is understod' that Lord Birkenhead) (Secreary for India) and other members of Cabinet will object to Britain continuing her responsibilities in Iraq beyond 1928, and hope, to secure a change iu the policy which Mr L. C. M. S. Amerv (Secretary for the Dominions) outlined. The Cabinet meeting will assist the Prime Minister (Mr Stanley Baldwin) to frame a speech for the Unionist conference at Brighton on. Thursday, which the country is eagerly awaiting in view of Lord Derby’s speech. FIRST-CLASS SENSATION.

LORD DERBY’S SPEECH. GOVERNMENT’S MOSUL POLICY. LONDON, Oct. 5. The Daily Express describes a speech made at Liverpool by Lord Derby as having created a first-class sensation and administered, a. crushing blow to the Government’s Mosul policy. Lord! Derby said: ‘Speaking frankly as a candid 1 friend of the Government, something is making the Conservatives uneasy.” He unexpectedly continued): “If the Government had a mandate when elected, it was not to remain 25 years in Iraq. It was for another purpose that, everybody supported the Conservatives. “It was because they saw the head of Communism being raised and attempts being made to Russianise Britain. Supporters wanted the Governme.il to scotch any such attempts. I ask you: What have you done about Communism? I believe you have, done something, but at present I do not know what.it is. If you have not powers to deal with Communism, make them. ’ ’