The New York herald., 1921-07-10

the Greek Oddly enough, just as italy
stands with Britain against France in Upper
Silesia, she stands with France against
Britain i'm the .Fgean.
British policy as consequence, is very
much embarrassed The British would still
like to dominate at Constantnople. in fact
they are in actual if not nominal control
there and mean to remain i'm control. But
this means, If Greece is eliminated or forced
to yield to the Turk both in Europe and in
Asia Minor that the British will have to
find troops to garrison not only Con-
stantinople, itself but the Asiatic shores of
the Straits and the Sea of Marmora. The
ideal situation. from the English point of
view would be for Greece to furnish the
soldiers and hold the nominal control while
British authority was exercised behind this
mask.
But to support Greece means now to en-
bark upon new adventure. The very
throne of Constantine is at stake He must
venizelos persuaded the Conference of Paris
to assign to his country or he will have to
return to his Swiss exile, discredited for all
time. And all efforts of the allied countries
to persuade Constantine to agree to com
promise have failed up to date with the
result that new campaign is just about to
begin.
InlS is, IN IdCI, lne SecOn0 Greek DlO, 1Or
last winter Greek operation pushed east
ward from Smyrna and southwark from the
Sea of Marmora until it came to grief along
the Anatoliap portion of the Bagdad Rail
way near Eskisher. This Greek defeat
brought the Turk back to envirohs both of
Constantinople and Of Smyrna. Since then
both sides have been accommodating arms and
munitions and new conflict is just be-
ginning.
With a New Campaign On
England May Be Forced to Join
If the Greeks should win this war the
British position in the Near East would be
consolidated provided Constantine were
loyal to a British master as he once was to
a German relative. But the Greeks can
hardly win without British support and as
sistance, even if they achieve success
with this assistance. And to give this as
sistance at once involves the British in bit
ter dispute with their French and Italian
associates and advertises at home that Great
Britain is engaging upon new imperialistic
adventure at the moment when national
sentiment is reused against all use of men
and money upon any warlike enterprise, at
precisely the time when London is talking
more of the evacuation of Mesopotamia than
of the conquest of Anatoia
Moreover, it is going to be exceedingly
difficult for the British to, insist upon the
acquisition by her favored friend Greece of
great Anatolian territories in many or
which the Greek element is a minority,
while demanding that Poland, the chosen
friend of France abandon all her claims to
territories in which the Poles are clear
majority and have recently indicated their
desire to be joined to Poland. To get a free
hand for the Greeks Britain would un-
doubtedly have to listen to French proposals
in Upper Silesia, but this would open the
way to new dsagreements with Italy, who is
permanently anti-Greek and might change
her vote i'm all allied conferences from the
British to the French side. thereby shifting
the control in the Supreme Council.
Since Greece has persevered in her cam
paign, despite the fact that Marshal Foch
has foretold defeat, for exactly the same
reasons the Polish offensive against Kiev
failed two years ago, the British have now
to face the not less disturbing possibilities
of Greek defeat. This means that the Turks
will come back to the Scutari shore of the
Dardanelles at least. 1t means that British
control in Constantnople can only be made
secure by the use of considerable numbers
of troops, since the Osmanli are bound to
seek to regain their capital and free their
Sultan, whom they insist is now a prisoner
of the allied nations
In this conflict the Sultan nominally op-
poses the Nationalistic elements. led by
Kemal Pasha who has made his capital at
Angora. But every one in Constantinope
knows that all Turkish sympathes are with
Kemal and a sweeping Turkish victory
would have instant echoes in that city
There is too. the Bolshevist detail, for the
Turks and the Bolshevists have joined hands
and fortunes across the Caucasus and Rus
sian ammunition and artillery, the booty of
the Wrangel victory. are being transported
to the Turkish armies through all the Black
Sea ports.
Far Reaching Consequences
Of a New Greco Turkish War