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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...
...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...
...committed. Unofficially the Turks at Geneva inquired, "How much did Laidoner get paid for his report?" Previously the Turkish representative before the Council, Munir Bey, had delivered an interminable harangue in which he raked up endless legal quibbles. He alleged that the Council had no right to dispose of Mosul, under the Treaty of Lausanne, except by a unanimous decision in which Turkey's vote must be counted...
...present Mosul frontier to be moved in such a way as to give Turkey a very small increase of territory...
...Vilayet and Village of Mosul to be definitely acknowledged as part of the Kingdom of Irak...