ASSYRIAN QUESTION.
SETTLEMENT OF PEOPLE. (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, Feb. 3. Replying to a question in the House of Commons the Foreign Secretary (Mr Eden), described, how, in spite of the effort of Britain to facilitate the task of \the League Committee on Assyrians, it had proved impossible to find a suitable area where all Assyrians could be settled together. He recalled that the League Cpuncil had decided last September to adopt a scheme for reorganisation on a self-supporting basis of the existing temporary settlement on the River Khabur in Syria, which contained about 9000 Assyrians. The Council had decided at the same time that the committee must terminate such functions as it possessed in respect of Assyrians remaining in Iraq, and had invited the Iraq Government to take steps to ensure that ! this section of Assyrians should be given every assistance to settle down as a prosperous and contented section of the Iraq people.
Mr Eden said he understood that, the Iraq Government had intimated its willingness to do this.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LVIII, Issue 58, 5 February 1938, Page 9
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