The correspondence between Great Britain and the United States with regard to the latter’s insistence that its approval is essential to the validity of any determination which may be reached with regard to mandated territories will be published by the League of Nations at America’s request and communicated to the Mandates Commission.
This disclosure was made today by Premier Ramsay MacDonald in reply to an inquiry by Lord Apsley, Laborite.
Differences between Great Britain and the United States arise in connection with the independence of Iraq, specifically, but the attitude of the United States government, applying as it does to all mandated territories, is of great significance.
The British government refused the request of the United States that it be consulted “with respect to conditions under which Iraq is to be administered upon the cessation of the mandatory relationship.”
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