Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, 1925, Volume II

890g.01/107: Telegram

The Ambassador in Great Britain (Kellogg) to the Secretary of State

London, November 3, 1924—4 p.m.
[Received 5:05 p.m.]

449. Your 369, October 21, 7 p.m.,⁴⁷ and penultimate paragraph of my 442, October 28, 5 p.m.⁴⁸

In further conversation at the Foreign Office I am informed that the mandate for Mesopotamia was never submitted to the League of Nations by the British Government because of the susceptibilities of Iraq, but in its place the treaty of King Feisal was concluded,⁴⁹ embodying the essential provisions of the mandate. The decision of the Council of the League at its 14th meeting of the 30th session was a declaration to approve the British communication defining British rights and responsibilities in Iraq. The decision of the Council and the dependent treaty, the Foreign Office states, together constitute the mandate and therefore the question of discrimination is provided for.

Kellogg

47. Supra.
48. Foreign Relations, 1924, vol. ii, p. 68.
49. Treaty of alliance and protocol between Great Britain and Iraq, signed Oct. 10, 1922, and Apr. 30, 1923, League of Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 35, p. 13; and four subsidiary agreements signed Mar. 25, 1924, ibid., pp. 35, 103, 131, and 145.