On Tuesday the Council diseused the report of General Laidoner,
who has been investigating the Turkish depor- tations in Mosul, and adopted the advisory opinion of The Hague Court that the League has full powers to deter- mine the frontier between Turkey and Iraq and that the decision of the League will be binding on both parties. The interested parties, of course, will not be allowed to vote. Lord Curzon made an unfortunate slip when he informed the Turkish representatives at Lausanne that they would be able to do so. Mr. Amery expounded the British case, and Munir Bey, the Turkish representative, used the unfortunate phrase (as the special correspondent of the Times tells us) that the issue of Mosul was too important to be left to the hasard de r arbitrage. In other words, Turkey at present refuses to be bound by the opinion of The Hague Court. Munir Bey impudently pointed out that a French jurist had given quite a different opinion and added that The Hague Court was not com- petent to give judgment. It had, he said, heard only one side. The truth is that Turkey was invited to send representatives to The Hague and though she did not do so she sent documents. * * * *
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