BRITAIN IN IRAQ.
TRUSTEE FOR THE PEOPLE
BY CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT
'LONDON, Fob. 18. The Labour amendment lo the motion in the House of Commons approving the Iraq treaty was defeated by 265 votes to 116.
Sir Austen Chamberlain (Minister for Foreign Affairs), in replying to the debate, claimed that the British Government were in Mesopotamia as trustees of the people of Iraq. It was shameful to say that the rights'and interests' of Iraq were being bargained away in exchange for concessions for British capitalists. He strongly denied that the Government was actuated by a desire to secure oil. Sir Austen Chamberlain disclosed that the Turks, in March of last year, offered Britain concessions in connection with all the oil in Mosul and two ports if Britain gave up the territory desired. The Government replied that, they wee trustees for, the people of the mandated territory and not possessors, and could not barter the rights of Iraq to capitalists.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 20 February 1926, Page 5
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