The sun., 1919-10-15
TURKEY HELPED
BY PEACE DELAY
To Retain Place in Europe I'm
less U. s. Accepts Mandate
Under League.
OLD PLAN ABANDONED
England Appears to Have Re-
gained Her Prestige in
the Levant.
)LD PLAN ABANDONED
By LAURENCE HILLS.
SfaD Correspondent Of The suS.

Sfd6 Correspondent OF IhE SVS'
Copyriohs. 1913, oil rights seserved.
PARIS. Oct. 14.-The Turk will stay
in Europe and Sainte Sophia will con-
tinue to be the seat Of Islam unless
the United States accepts a mandate
for Constantinople. This Is becoming
more and more evident from the de-
velopments both in Paris and In the
Orient. The delay in action by the
Allies, arising largely through the
adoption Of the mandate plan for ad-
ministering Turkey. has saved the
Turk from being driven out Of Europe.
II the United States refuses to accept
the mandate the only partition of Tur-
key will be of certain parts of Asia
Minor.
This is in great contrast with the
plan at the beginning of the confer
ence, which 1t will be recalled was to
drive the Turk out of Constantinople
both spiritually and materially. giving
him only Anatolia- All through the
last years Of the war It was taken for
granted that Constantinople was to be-
come a Christian city. with the cross
once more on Sainte Sophia. thereby
realizing the dream Of ages. All this
has collapsed absolutely.
| The illness of President Wilson ha.
destroyed the last lingering hope Of
many, that something like the origina
/, plan might be carried out. The Presi
dent 10 known to have favored strongly
an American mandate for CONSTANT
nople. and much surprise has beer
| caused here by his failure to advocate 4
! on his tour, which generally has beei
interpreted here as meaning that th
President found sentiment overwhelm
ingly against 1t and therefore abandoned
the intention he had when he left Eu
rope. after promising the big Powers
speedy determination OF the CONSTANT
nople question. II the President shoul'
be incapacitated for any length of time
statesmen here are in favor of goinl
ahead with other plans for the solution
Of the Turkish problem. ;
A solution along the same lines doe
not present itself easily. for no European
Power would allow any other EuropeaI
Power TO take a Turkish mandate, sue
are the jealous rivalries of Europe. tn
return Of the Young Turks to power
emphasized by the victory of Mustaph
Kemars Nationalist army, can be at
tributed to one thing only. and that
the delay In settling Turkeys futur
arising out of the adoption OF the Leagu
of Nations plan.
| Undoubtedly such a settlement coul
have been made last summer. II not be
fore but the mandate plan. involvin
Americas acceptance, has given IN
Turk opportunity to recuperate rapidl
| and at the same time has permitted tn
rivalries and conflicting claims of tn
Allies to multiply. October / was placc
, as the latest date when the Presider
. would make known the decision {
America; he had promised, II would al
, pear, to sound Congress on this que
. ton even before the ratification Of I'll
q treaty.
! News Of the occupation of two citi'
! more in Turkey and the reaction cause
, In the Ottoman Ministry has caused
lively sensation here. Observers asr'
: that the mandate scheme now Is lei
n susceptible OF operation than ever, n
a hostility of the Committee of Union an
a Progress to this mode of administeriT
Y Turkey being well understood and recoi
r nized here as offering the greatest o.
o staole to its success.
: Thus II is that various Europes
9 foreign offices virtually have placed Il
o stamp of their approval on plan whit
h consists of kind Of system of intern
X tional control with the preponderan
+" of power In the hands Of the Britis
s French and Italians The British pra
: tically are all powerful In that regi'
y to-day. 1t is a fact that a ship cam
h clear from the Bosphorus nor ira
load of goods move from one place
. another without the approval Of 4
o British commissioner In Constantinople
Q In short, England appears to ha
: regained her old prestige and power
o the Levant which she had before I
o Germans supplanted her.