The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1920-05-20
TURKEY Gets
PEACE TERMS
MomentouS Treaty Presented to
Ottoman Delegates by French
Premier at Paris Conference.
ARMENIA is RECOGNIZED.
Free Navigation of Straits in Control
of Allied Commission.-Arbitra
of President of United States
as to Boundary Provided.

as to Boundary Provided.
Paris.-The fifth of the major peace
treaties growing out of the war was
AIillerand in the Clock Room of the
Quai d'Orsay. 1t was received in the
trembling hands of Tewfik Pasha,
who with his three associates on the
jected countenances, were in this gild-
ed hall but pathetic reminders of the
shadowy remains of that once mighty
empire over which Soliman, surnamed
the Magnificent, held sway.
In personal appearance, in so far as
dress was concerned, these Turkish
plenipOtentaries looked like so many
Frenchmen. The treaty which they
bore away is conceded here to contain
more potential elements of trouble
than does even the German pact.
The treaty provides for free naviga-
ton of the Straits of the Dardanelles
Marmora, both in time of war and
time of peace. These waters will be
III control of an allied commission, to
which the United States, if she desires,
is to be a member. Other members of
tie Commission of Control are Great
Britain, France, Italy, Japan, Greece
and Rumania. Russia and Bulgaria
may become members of the commits
sion after they Have been admitted
into the league of nations.
The great powers, which are the
United States, Great Britain, France,
Italy, Japan and Russia, when she is
admitted to league membership and
representation on the commission, are
to have two votes each. Greece and
Rumania are to have one vote each.
The treaty provides that the Turks
shall recognize the independence of
Armenia and shall accept the arbitra-
tiOn of the President of the United
States in all questions relating to the
Armenan-Turkish frontier, Erzerum,
Trebizond, Van and Bitlis as we'll as
to Armenia's access to the sea.
The covenant of the league of ma
tions forms the first part of the treaty.
The ceremony attendant on the
presentation of the treaty to the Turk
ish plenipOtentiaries took less than five
minutes to conclude. Premier Miller
and in a brief speech blamed Turkey
for pro-longing the war by her en-
trance and declared that it was the
duty of the Allies to see to 1t that such
or OF
peated.
The Premier's announcement that
the Allies had decided to allow the
Sultan to retain sovereignty over Con-
stantlnople was received impassively
by the Turkish ENJOYS. They promised
to give the Turkish answer to the
peace treaty within a month
Obviously it will be difficult for the
United States to become a member of
the Commission of Control of the
Straits without becoming a member Of
the league of nations, because no ac-
ton can be taken against Turkey in
case of acts of hostility except in car
rying out the decisions of the council
Of the league.
This attitude of the French press ap-
pears highly significant inasmuch as It
Is launched simultaneously with the
delivery of the treaty to the Turkish
plenipotentiaries today, and 1t seems
to have the tacit approval of the gov
ernment.
Premier Millerand, It will be remem-
bered, refused to divulge the terms Of
the treaty to the Chamber OF Deputies
when he returned to Paris from the
San Reno conference, nor has he ever
expressed himself publicly on it. That
France consented to many of the terms
contained i'm the pact much against her
will to win Premier Lloyd George over
to some Of her views regarding Ger
many can now be assumed, and the
French newspaper attack against the
treaty at this time looks like a new
threat for the purpose of influencing
the Spa conference.