Word: iraqization
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...success is undoubtedly determined in ratio to the political consciousness of the people. When, however, representative government is introduced into backward countries whose populace is for the most part ignorant and whose leaders are often corrupt, it becomes nothing short of a farce. At Bagdad, capital of Iraq, officials decided to postpone a general election for the first national parliament. The circumstances were unique; The population of the country-man, woman and child-is not more than 3,000,000; of these, only male subjects 20 years of age may vote. When the register of the electorates was completed...
...Iraq. The League commission that is to decide the delimitation of the Iraq-Turkish frontier must have been happy in the knowledge that a paternal Secretary General was looking after its interests...
Arabia. Britain, as mandatory Power for Iraq, Palestine and Kerak (Trans-jordania), informed the Secretariat that those countries objected to paying the proportions of the Ottoman Public Debt assigned to them by the Treaty of Lausanne. An arbiter to be appointed by the Council of the League was suggested...
...Lausanne Treaty (TIME, August 6, 1923) left undone one thing that it should have done: the settlement of the Iraq-Turkish boundary.* It was understood that Britain (holding a League of Nations mandate for Iraq) and Turkey were to solve the problem between themselves; and, if agreement were impossible, they were to refer their dispute to the League...
Premier Ramsay MacDonald of Britain, expostulating that British troops had remained on the Iraq side of the frontier (i.e., what Britain said was the Iraq side), requested the League for an immediate Council meeting to deal with the difficulty. The Council of the League informed Sir Eric Drummond, League Secretary General, that it would hold "as soon as possible" an extraordinary session to consider the Anglo-Turkish dispute...