New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-04-27

OHe Wou1O HOt Heeu 10 De 8 Cynlc
to point out with some emphasis that
the association Of nations which set out
a year ago to abolish wal has now
come down to a shaky partnership de-
voting its attention to restoring the
Sultan. A mere glance at the salient
circumstance in the agreement of San
Reno with respect to the first matter
in hand, the Turkish problem, discloses
the extent Of the fissure between the
several nations.
Turkey was considered first, with
Russia and Germany in the background,
because there was the hope that at
least about the Osmanli affairs there
might be substantial agreement. But
the pious hope turns out to be little
more. The distrust which has crept
into the relations between the old Allies
is poisoning the Turkish debate quite
as much as the German.
The result is the old compromise.
Turkey is to turn over to the Allies all
the territories which they cannot now
apportion among themselves or the suf-
fering races, but real action is to be
postponed to that time when there may
be harmony among the British, French
and Italian representatives. Even this
transfer is only nominal, however, be-
cause the territories in question are
actually in the possession of Renal
Pasha, who represents Turkish nation
alism.
The Familiar Story
Therefore, the fact in the Near East.
as contrasted with the polite fiction Of
San Reno, is that an army Of 30C 100
men with all the proper furnishings
of fleets and artillery is essential 20
carry out the San Reno settlement,
and this army is not forthcoming.
This is the familiar story of the Paris
Conference: resort to words where
only action could have any effect, and
no one is ready to meet the costs of
action.
Great Britain has occupied Con-
stantinople; this is a solid fact. Her
feet and her land forces control By
zantium, and to Malta, Gibraltar,
Egypt and Cyprus there is now added
the mastery Of the Bosporus and the
Dardanelles. This means that the
British will dominate the eastern end
OF the Mediterranean and commercial
~ control the whole Near East.
The Greeks will obtain the territory
between the Bulgarian border and the
approaches of Constantinople and
Turkish Thrace, with the Bulgarian
foreshore between the Struma and the
Martha thrown in. This is just; the
Greek population is a majority and the
lands have been Hellenic since the
very beginning Of history. Moreover,
although Turkish troops now garrison
Adrianople and will resist Creek an
nexation, Greece can dispose of these
troops, who will be isolated from
Asiatic Turkey and threatened in the
rear by t.e British in Constantinople.
Crescs will also obtain Smyrna. which
Is hers by every known right.
AS to France and Italy, subject to
the necessity Of fighting for them,
they will obtain respectively Cilicia
and Syria for the French and Adalia
for the Italians. But already the
French are heavily engaged in Cilicia
with the Turks and ara on the edge Of
hostilities with the Arabs in Syria.
Nor a the Italians expect permanent
occupation of Adalia without pro-
longed fighting.
The British, on their side, will con-
troll Constantinople on the north and
Mesopotamia and Palestine on the
south, but Emir Feisal, who was a
British invention during tho war, has
become even more dangerous to the
British than to the French, aimee the
Arabic nationAlism which he has