CAUSE OF ASSYRIANS
SETTLEMENT EFFORTS LEAGUE'S DIFFICULTIES (Received February 4, 6.5 p.m.) British Wireless RUGBY, Feb. 3 Replying to a question in the House of Commons to-day, the Foreign Secretary, Mr. Eden, said that in spite of the effort made by Britain to facilitate the task of the League of Nations' committee on the settlement of Assyrians, it had proved impossible to find a suitable area where all Assyrians could be settled together. The Minister recalled that the League Council had decided in September to adopt a scheme for tho reorganisation on a self-supporting basis of the existing temporary settlement on the River Khabur, in Syria, which contained about 9000 Assyrians. Tho Council had decided at the same time that the committee must terminate such functions as it possessed in respect to Assyrians remaining in Irak. It had invited the Irak Government to take steps to ensure that this section of the Assyrians should be given every assistance to settle down as a prosperous and contented section of the Irak people. He understood that the Irak Government had intimated its willingness to do this.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 22955, 5 February 1938, Page 16
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