Mr. Baldwin declined the request of Mr. J. R. Clynes (Labour) to remove fiom, the order paper 'a motion in Mr. Baldwin's name that the House approves the action of the British representatives Geneva in accepting the award of the Council of the League of Nations on the Iraq boundary.
Mr, Clynes said that Mr. Baldwin's motion dealt with an international issue of the utmost importance, The House, depleted at the close of the session, was to be asked to commit itself to very serous commitments on the part of Britain, No opportunity had been given the Opposition to consider the terms of the motion. He asked Mr. Baldwin to permit a discussion on Iraq by moving an adjournment without passing a motion for division.
Mr. Baldwin agreed on the imof the motion but re-
Decenalty. He, added sembled, of submitting the new treaty and asking the House to ace cept or reject it, While he anxious to meet the desire of the Tender of the Opposition, he was unable to remove the motion paper.
Mr. Clynes said that the motion amounted to undue coercion of the House and when the motion ws reached he would ask the Labour members to leave and not to pai ticipate in the discussions, a P¥Pollowing Mr, Clynes'_ protest rot
the House considered 142 amendments of the Rating Bill of the House of Lords.
4 Mr. MacLean's Threat Mr. Neil MacLean (Labour) said that he would speak on every yondment and every one of the five bills down for to-day, challenge ing a division on each occasion, to Keep the House until 11 o'clock' tomorrow morning, the time fixed for prorogation, Mr. MacLean did not think that the Iraq debate would be reached to-day at all, 'The Labour members walked out in' protest against Mr, Baldwin's) refusal to permit Iraq to be discussed on a motion of adjournment not involving a division.
The departure of the Labour members followed a further vain attempt on their part to induce the Premier to alter his position. Previously a motion was carried adjourning the discussion on the Rating Bill and other until Jan-
Mr. Baldwin, moving the Mosul motion, made a statement of the British policy in Iraq. He said that the undertaking the Government had given was not for a definite 25 years, but for what he be-Hieved to be a far shorter period, namely, until Iraq had acquired stability justifying its admission into the League of Nations. It was not an undertaking to spend money on, or keep troops in Iraq, but to continue ce-operation and advice in maintaining a stable system of Government, If, after the expiration of the Anglo-Traq Treaty in 1928, a foreign Power attacked Iraq with a view to for-elbly overthrowing the boundary fixed by the Council of the League of Nations, then the responsibility of the League would be primary and dominant and our responsibility would necessarily depend then the 1g circumstances of world peace and the general condition of the Empire, What Turkey Wants In the course of a subsequent debate, Commander Kenworthy said he understood the Turks were prepared to submit the following, terms, on which he urged the Got otinte: mmiliatarized zone should fon either the frontier.
'A pact, of security should between, Turkey, Persia and Traq.
The Turks would guarantee the perpetual independence of Iraq and would come to terms with Britain with regard to the exploitation of all, and the proposed exchange of the Christian population for Kurds
ritory. and Turks left in mandated terthe Turks asked in exchange that part of Mosul inhabited by a. majority of Kurds and Turks, including the city of Mosul.
Mr. Amery, replying during the debate, declared that he was con-vineed' Iraq would not only pay its way during the next few.years, "but would steadily shoulder the burdens we are now carrying for her." He emphasized the Government's readiness to negotiate with Turkey, and to make any adjust-ich would make the settle-jor for Turkey. ement of the figures sion was greeted with loud Ministerial laughter. The minority was composed of Liber-_ als, the Labourites being absent throughout the debate, Later.
Mr. Baldwin's Mosul motion was by 239 votes to four—
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