In the House of Commons on Monday Mr. Ormsby-Gore moved
the adjournment of the House to call attention to affairs in Syria, and the consequent danger to British interests in the Middle East. Mr. Boner Law pointed out that as a mandate for Syria had been given to France it was no business of ours to interfere unless French action clashed with the Peace Treaty. French troops had been murdered, and the French were taking the same steps that we should have taken in Mesopotamia in similar circumstances. The French had stated that they had no thought of a permanent military occupation, and, on the whole
he considered their case a very good one. He added that the British and the French Governments had twice sent a joint invitation to the Emir Feisul to come to Europe to discuss the question, but he had not been able to accept.
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