Word: mosul
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...convincingly at Angora. Once more that redoubtable invalid plays the classic Ottoman game of fast-and-loose with Russia and Britain. He signs the Lausanne pact, and as readily a treaty of amity with Russia. He drives the unbeliever into Greece. He toys with the wily Briton at Chanak, Mosul, and in Irak. He has the very temerity to throw a wrench into the World Court, a deed pardonable only in provincials from Idaho and Wisconsin...
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...
...once the Laborites launched an attack upon the Government's policy of protecting British oil interests and native Christians in the Vilayet of Mosul at the expense of the British taxpayer; and for a while the debate was enlivened by Laborite obstructionist tactics. Fiery Scotch Laborite Neil Maclean at one time attempted to "rise to a point of order" without observing the technical formality of putting on his hat and sitting down, which must legally accompany such parliamentary "rising." Having no hat within reach Mr. Maclean was nonplused until a fellow member hastily improvised a paper cockade...
...asking only for a vote accepting the League Council's decision in principle. The specific details of the settlement will be negotiated and presented to the House during February. . . . The policy of the present Government with respect to 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...
...tang of bluff is given to the agreement by the fact that mutual neutrality instead of mutual aid is promised between the parties. The more excitable newspapers of the U. S. hailed the agreement as a threat to Great Britain's power in the Near East, especially in Mosul...