The British Government was again asked today to intervene with Iraq to obtain the end of discriminatory treatment of British Jews who desire to fly to Iraq or pass through it to any other point in the Near East.
Barnett Janner, Laborite, asked Foreign Undersecretary Anthony Nutting whether he had intervened with the Iraq Government to remove discriminatory regulations which required special visas for Jews and which have never been granted to Jews. As a result of this requirement the British Overseas Airways Corporation refuses to take Jewish passengers to or through Iraq.
Mr. Nutting recalled that in November, 1950 the British Ambassador in Bagdad had sent a note to the Iraqi Government requesting modification of the regulations so as to guarantee British Jews the same treatment as other British subjects, but no reply had been received. The Ambassador had been instructed to renew his application, Mr. Nutting revealed.
Mr. Janner then suggested that Britain seek the assistance of the United Nations on this matter. Mr. Nutting said he preferred to reserve judgment on the suggestion, stating that he would rather deal with the matter through diplomatic channels and that the representations to Iraq had been renewed.
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