ABSTRACT
The first significant impact of the Palestine question on Iraqi politics occurred in February 1928, during the visit of the British statesman, Sir Alfred Mond. The Iraqi-British treaty of 1930, which proclaimed the independence of Iraq, provided a pretext for the rallying of Iraq's nationalist forces which demanded its revocation and the cessation of British intervention in Iraqi affairs. According to the nationalists, the agreement failed to give Iraq full independence, by providing for continued British influence on military, economic, and administrative matters. In July 1932, al-Hashimi visited Palestine to promote the convocation of the Pan-Arab Conference and to arrange for it to be held in Baghdad. Al-Hashimi continued publicly to display his interest in the Palestine question as part of his pan-Arab exertions. Palestinian activists played an active role in disseminating the pan-Arab ideology and in forming the imminent link between it and the Palestine question.
