Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1919-02-16
VEN|ZEL0S WOULD UNITE
CREEK UNDER ONE FLAG
Asks Peace Conference for Thracc,
Smyrna, Cyprus and Other Hell
IcDic Provinces.
WANTS PROTECTION For ALL
Although! Constantlnoplc is Home OF
Thousands OF Ills People, lie
Docs Not Demand IL for Country.
Conflicts With Italy.
BY RENE VIVIAN.

PARIS. Feb. lh.-What is tho case OF
Greece at tho peace conference?
Greece bases all hcr claims on .hc
principle or nationality. OF the 1856
900 Greeks. only 800. 200 ianabi: the
teiicnic Kingdom. The others arc scat
tered ia Thracc. Asia Minor. tho Dcdc-
caacsc Islands, Cyprus, Ep:ris, South
orn Albania and so on.
Grcecc's policy nov is to reunitc the
greatest number OF Greeks under the
Same Lax.
IN Thracc. $4,000 Greeks constitute
population. which is the reason VIII.
numerous BulEarians iniiabit that
province. and ;heir desires have aIw-ays
tended ioward establishing a Balkan
hcEcmony for themselves t;ut todav
the allies have no reason for showing
benevolent disposition toward tho
Eulgarians at the expense OF tho Greek
population.
To the cast oC Th-acc lies Coustan-
tincpl". The prestige OF Isyaantiur in
the eyes OF the Greeks remains intact
Moreover. Constantinopie has "a Greek
is the city OF ono % the Hellenic saints
and it is there ihat resides the pa
triarch of tho Greek church.
GREECE DOES Not DEMAND
POSSESSION or CoNsTANTINOrLE
Nevertheless, for political reasons.
the Greek government does not OK
pressly demand posse ss!or of Constan-
tinoplc. but proposes Vat IL form. to-
national state under the protection Of
The society OF nations. In return for
This concession. Greece claims tho west
err portion of Asia Minor. comprising
tho territory situated west of the line
starting from CaSteic-izXo and extend
ing noT;hward as far as the Sea- OF
haralora.
II this were granted. Smyrna would
be como Creek. but the peace conference
could guarantee it's use as an outlet
for the Turkish products. The vilaye;s
-
claims comprise about 100000 Mussul
mans. Their rights, too. ought to be
guaranteed. The treaty of peace might,
for instance. stipulate that the Greci.
government agrees 20 buy the houses
IF these Mussulmans and facilitate
their exodus.
WANTS SAFETY OF GREEKS
ASSURED By TURKEY
The Turkish government naturally
ought TO be pledged TO similar otliga-
.ionS toward the Greeks remaining in
territories which the Turks would con-
tinue 10 administer.
saniza,ion OF the former Turkish ter
ri;orics. Premier Venizelos, of Greece.
takes as his basis number IL of Pres-
dent Wilson's fourteen points:
The Turkish portions OF the pres
ent Ottoman empire should be as
sured secure sovereignty. but the
other nat!onalities which are now
under Turkish rule should be assured
an undoubied security of life and an
absolutely unmolested opportunity OF
autonomous development"
On the basis OF this principle. Vent
zclos adds that according TO his idea,
II the higher Anatolian plateau is to be
kept under Turkish authority. then
there should be constituted in addi-
ton TO the international state of Con-
stantinople and the Dardanelles a vast
separate state reaching from the Black
Sea to the Mediterranean.
VENIZELoS WANTS BRITAIN
TO CEDE CYPRUS TO GREECE
Regarding the islands, Venizelos
voices the desire that Britain will re-
nounce cyprus, and he asks the re-
union with Greco OF the Islands OF
by Italy.
Again Greece is confronted with