London, Jan. 17.
That the political atmosphere at Geneva will shortly be disturbed by strong gales ig being surmised by the "Daily Telegraph" in to-day's leading article, in which it ced out that besides the Polish-German minority conflict, there are other storm-clouds threatening to burst during the impending session of the League <f Nations Council In this connection the article mentions the mandates question, which is likely to acquire renewed actuality through the British pro: poral to terminate the British mandate over Iraq, the country to become thereafter a Full fledged member of the League of Nations.
These developments, the "Daily Telegraph" declares, might offer an opportunity to Germany and Italy to press their viewpoint that the mandates are not permanent but revocable, and transferable, wherefore both these countries might moot the question of a redistribution of the mandates. This, the paper be-Vieves, as well as the fact that Great' Britain might eventually give up the Iraq mandate, will strongly be resisted by Frafce, because it would concurrently bring to the fore the question of an eventual termination of France's Syrian mandate, which she is unwilling to—Trans-Ocean Kuo Min.
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