INDEPENDENT IRAK
MANDATE TERMINATING REPORT TO LEAGUE COUNCIL [ British Official Wirekss. ] RUGBY 7 , May 19. The League of Nations Council at Geneva to-day approved a report providing that as soon as Irak has accepted the Convention covering various guarantees recommended by the Permanent Mandates Commission. Britain can terminate her mandate and Irak can become an independent member of the League. Irak will thus quality for admission at the next plenary assembly in September, as she is prepared to accept the draft declaration. In this she undertakes to guarantee protection for racial, linguistic, and religious minorities; the safeguarding of foreigners’ legal interests; the guaranteeing of flnacial obligations contracted before the mandate ends; the protection of religious missions; respect for international conventions; and most-favoured-national treatment of League members for ten years.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 75, Issue 119, 23 May 1932, Page 7
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129INDEPENDENT IRAK Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 75, Issue 119, 23 May 1932, Page 7
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