A complaint against the refusal of the Iraq government to grant him and his wife visas, which would have made it possible for them to attend the opening of the Mosul oil pipeline at Kirkuk on January 14, has been entered by Sir Robert Waley Cohen, it was indicated here today.
Sir Robert, whose wife, Lady Alice, died on January 24 of injuries received January 16 in an automobile accident near Haifa, is understood to have charged that, had the requested visas been granted, “the collision would not have happened.” He was also injured.
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