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...Irak Debated. Premier Stanley Baldwin slouched amiably into the House of Commons and asked for the ratification "in principle" of the recent decision of the Council of the League of Nations continuing the British regime in Mosul (TIME, Dec. 28, THE LEAGUE...
...Mosul is merely to carry out the policy of Lord Curzon, who signed the Treaty of Lausanne, upon which the adjudication of the League Council is based; and that of Mr. Ramsay Macdonald, whose Labor Government ratified the Treaty. . . . Since we have accepted a mandate over the Kingdom of Irak [containing Mosul] from the League, we are pledged to carry it out. If we weaken the League by not doing so, we shall regret that weakening when the League is called upon in future to take action?perhaps in some unforeseen crisis which might develop about the Locarno Treaties...
...Vilayet and Village of Mosul to be definitely acknowledged as part of the Kingdom of Irak...
...Britain to renew her treaty obligation to protect Irak for an" other 25 years, unless within that time Irak is admitted as a member of the League...
...Britain to conclude a commercial treaty between Irak and Turkey, allowing Turkey to use the trans-Irak trade routes...