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Finally, Mr. Lloyd George predicted that Mesopotamia would become a

self-supporting and prosperous community, and that our expenditure there would decrease. Yet the truth remains that we are already spending the enormous amount of thirty. five millions a year on a country with a population of only two millions, and that the cost tends to increase. There is only one relevant question in deciding a matter like this. It is not, Can we succeed in governing such a country ? but, Can we pay for the sort of Government we are setting up ? The answer to the question as regards Mesopotamia is that we cannot Pay-

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