SINCERE MOTIVE
BRITAIN'S IRAQ MANDATE
THE PEOPLE'S TRUSTEE.
NO ULTERIOR AIM.
(Received 9.3 a.m.) LONDON, February 18.
The Labour Party's amendment, opposing extension of the British mandate in Iraq, was defeated by 265 votes to 116.
Sir Austen Chamberlain, Foreign Secretary, replying to the debate, claimed that the British Government was in Mesopotamia as trustee 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 to British capitalists. He strongly denied that the Government was actuated by a desire to secure oil.
Sir Austen 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 territory desired by the Turks, The Government replied that it acted as trustee for the people. The mandatories were not possessors, and could not barter the rights of Iraq to capitalists.—A. and N.Z.
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Northern Advocate, 20 February 1926, Page 5
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