The fate of Mosul remains, of course, undecided. The Secretary
of State for the Colonies made a vigorous speech at Birmingham last week, giving in our opinion a fair account of the course of the discussions at Geneva. The Way in which some newspapers here have truckled to the Turk and used Mosul as a stick with which to beat the Prime Minister has not been creditable and Mr. Amery was justified in trouncing them. They use the plea of economy and yet would throw away the richest province of Iraq, and so increase the expenditure from home ; they try to raise a quite unjustifiable scare of war with Turkey, and ignore the League of Niitions as the arbiter whose findings should be followed to prevent war here and else- where ; they claim for the Turk that the Vilayet of Mosul is still an integral part of Turkey, and omit to say that the same must be true or untrue of the rest of Iraq ; they profess to be civilized Christians and yet would throw the Christian men who fought with us during the War back on to the Turkish bayonets that await them, their women into Turkish harems, their children into Moslem slavery. The Archbishop of Canterbury has addressed a dignified appeal to Mr. Baldwin that the Government should not forget our moral responsibilities towards these people.
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