Baghdad, Oct, 10.
General Nuri es' Said, the Iraqi soldier and statesman who negotiated the Anglo-Iraqi treaty of alliance, has formed a new Cabinet. Nuri es Said has thrice been Premier of Iraq.
It was stated some days ago that the change in the Iraqi Cabinet was expected. General Nuri succeeds Jamal al Madfai who took office following the collapse of the rebel government of Rashid Ah el Gailani.
In June, General Nuri was appointed Iraqi Minister in Cairo.
-Reuter. if Hitler got a foothold on British soil the ensuing struggle would decide whether Britain would survive or perish, and in such a desperate emergency it was possible that a relatively small amount of war material might turn the scale, and the Administration wanted to be able to meet that possible emergency.
Administration Must be Free It does not want to come to that desperate eventuality and find it must fail in the crisis because the law says no American ship can put in at a belligerent port with war supplies The Administration wants to be free to run every ship it can lay hands on into the northern ports of Britain."
Mr. Clapper also points out the absurdity of the law which says that ships cannot go into a port with supplies necessary to win victory, for which vast expenditure has "been made, The general feeling here is that if the erming of merchantmen passes Congress, the provision in the Neutralty Law preventing American ships entering belligerent ports will be next for repeal in a White House request.
President Roosevelt is ágain seen as an astute politician in getting things done piece-meal in Congress rather then attempting at this moment to sweep the whole Act away.—Reuter.
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