26 DECEMBER 1925, Page 1

NEWS OP THE WEEK .

THE Government came very well out of the .Mosul debate': in the House of Commons on Monday.• The Prime,-Minister showed . conclusively that lie had been neither: inconsistent in his policy nor. careless in -the acCeptarice of unnecessary risks. The day _Opened with a thisgUided and useless demonstration- by the 'Labour"- Opposition. Mr. Clynes, in the - absence of Mr: MacDonald, asked that the Mosul debate should : take Place not on a simple resolution. Committing the 1-16use to:approval.of the League's decision: but on a Motion for the adjournMent. The Opposition, he said, had had no time to. think over an amendment. - Mr. Baldwin very Properly .explained that it was right to give a sanction at -once:to Ahe League's decision and that this accounted for the form of the resolution, but the Treaty would be offered for full discussion and submitted to a free vote at the beginning of next session.