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Original olive green printed wraps 16 x 25cm. Printed May 1931, 1250 copies. 331pp including 5 b/w photos + 3 folding maps: Map of Iraq shewing Health Services Institutions 1929; Iraq Map shewing Motor Traffic Routes; Sketch Map of Iraq. Wraps good with small chips. Interiors very good, creased to top corners, maps neatly folded. Under the League of Nations Mandate, the British committed to "the establishment at the earliest possible date of a fully independent State of Iraq" (Introduction). This report therefore covers progress since the Mandate was awarded over a very wide range of subjects, including Anglo-Iraqi relations; British advice and assistance; the Constitution and Parliament; foreign affairs (with Turkey, Persia, Hejaz and Nejd, Syria et al); Defence (local levies, RAF operations, operations against Sheikh Mahmud, raids from the Southern Desert, etc); Interior (administration, police, jails, health, justice); finance; communications and works (public works, posts and telegraphs, rail, port); irrigation, agriculture and connected services; commerce and industry (general, oil); education (including for religious and racial minorities); social conditions (in the hills, nomadic tribes of the plains, settled cultivating tribes, towns); labour (including in oil companies, rail and port, weaving etc); Antiquities; Minorities (Kurds, Assyrians, Other); concluding remarks; and several appendices. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 4582
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