890G.42/37: Telegram
The Secretary of State to the Minister Resident in Iraq (Knabenshue)
39. Your despatch 1357, August 22 and Department’s instruction 389, September 14. Telegraph brief report of status of proposed educational law and indicate what further action, if any, has been taken by your British and French colleagues.
Trustees of Baghdad College, who have invested about $250,000 in the institution, are particularly concerned at some of the provisions of the law, such as Article 32, and are fearful that their investment, which was encouraged by Iraqi authorities, may be seriously jeopardized.