examination of the petition... It recommends that the Council should ask
the British Government to make representations to the 'Iraq Government
with a view to the immediate redress of the denial of justice from which
the petitioners have suffered."

The British accredited representative present at the sessions of the
Commission, furthermore, stated that "the Mandatory Power had recognized
that the Baha'is had suffered an injustice," whilst allusion was made, in
the course of that session, to the fact that the action of the _Sh_i'ahs
constituted a breach of the constitution and the Organic Law of 'Iraq. The
Finnish representative, moreover, in his report to the Council, declared
that this "injustice must be attributed solely to religious passion," and
asked that "the petitioner's wrongs should be redressed."

The Council of the League, on its part, having considered this report as
well as the joint observations and conclusions of the Commission,
unanimously adopted, on March 4, 1929, a resolution, subsequently
translated and published in the newspapers of Ba_gh_dad, directing the
Mandatory Power "to make representations to the Government of 'Iraq with a
view to the immediate redress of the injustice suffered by the
Petitioners." It instructed, accordingly, the Secretary General to bring
to the notice of the Mandatory Power, as well as to the petitioners
concerned, the conclusions arrived at by the Commission, an instruction
which was duly transmitted by the British Government through its High
Commissioner to the 'Iraq Government.

A letter dated January 12, 1931, written on behalf of the British Foreign
Minister, Mr. Arthur Henderson, addressed to the League Secretariat,
stated that the conclusions reached by the Council had "received the most
careful consideration by the Government of 'Iraq," who had "finally
decided to set up a special committee ... to consider the views expressed
by the Baha'i community in respect of certain houses in Ba_gh_dad, and to
formulate recommendations for an equitable settlement of this question."
That letter, moreover, pointed out that the committee had submitted its
report in August, 1930, that it had been accepted by the government, that
the Baha'i community had "accepted in principle" its recommendations, and
that the authorities in Ba_gh_dad had directed that "detailed plans and
estimates shall be prepared with a view to carrying these recommendations
into effect during the coming fin