Iron County record. [volume] (Cedar City, Utah) 1893-1982, 1922-09-22
CRISIS IN NEAR
EAST ALARMING
BRITISH CABINET SETS INFoR.
MALLY OVER WEEK END
AND DEBATES
london Daily Mail charseterizes Pol
Icy Of Premier Lloyd George
AZ Near insanity; Press
Voice Opinions

London.-Near eastern develop
ments are causing the British govern
xment increased anxiety. The cabinet
Vet informally over the week end at
Chequers Court. the country res dents
OF the prime minister Austen Cham
berla'n, Lord Brikenhead. Sir Robert
Stevenson Horne and Winston Spen-
Ger Churchill have besn Lloyd Georges
guests there, and all through Sunday
the telephones between Chequers
Court and the foreign Office in London
have been humming with consulta-
tions with the various government de
partments.
The principal news of Sunday
brought by Associated Press dispatch
es, is of a conference between Sir
Harry Lamb, the British High COM
missioner, and Mustapha Renal Pasha
at Smyrna, in which the nationalist
leader showed little disposition to re-
gard allied warnings unless the allies
were willing to return Thrace to Tur
key. Moreover, Renal demanded COM
plete withdrawal of the Greek forces
from the Tchatalja ines.
The latest advice from CONSTANT
nople indicate serious allied prepare
tions for a possible attempt by the
Kemalists against the neutral zone.
This may serve to explain the some
what sudden change in the attitude
Of the British government from FRI
day, when 1t was explained that no
considerable reinforcements would be
sent to the near east unless the Turks
gave evidence of an intent to cross
into Europe, when the British govern.
ment issued an important statement of
policy. showing immediate steps to
meet possible Kemalist action.
This sudden change in attitude has
caused grave misgivings in certain
quarters. The Daily Mail Monday pub
lished under the editorial caption !:
This New War;" an article stigmatiz-
ing the policy set forth in the state
ment as bordering upon insanity"
1t declares that the British public
will learn with dlsmay and astonish-
ment that Lloyd George and his col
leagues are organizing a new war in
the near east, are trying to drag Jugo.
Slavia and Rumania into the fray and
are sending British troops into bat
tie shoulder to shoulder with the de.
jected Creeks"
1t adds: "The most astonishing dis.
al t., Il, q
government policy 10 that apparently
Lloyd George already has sent fiery
cross around the overseas dominions
asking them to send contingents to
Join in this mad war;
The Mail contends that Mustapha
Kemal's peace terms are not far re-
moved from the terms propounded by
Lord CurzOn, in behalf of the allies
on March Both, when Lord CurzCr,
suggested the Enos-MidIa line should
he the Turkish frontier in Europe
1t declares that all agree that
Constantinople must be returned
10 the Turks and Renal Pasha, and
now Lloyd George is trying to re-
trieve his shattered reputation
through the downfall OF his pro-Greef
policy, by arranging wanton war
and supposing that he can arouse the
nation as Gladstone did in the seven.
ties of last century about Bulgaria"
While the Mail has known pro,
French proclivities, 1t voices an opin-
ion which is quite prevalent.
Great Bitain's one true Interest
is freedom of the straits. which can
he attained by negotiations" the pa.
per continues. "There is not the snla'
lest need to plunge Europe into war
and ALLEVIATE tho whole Mohammedan
world about the straits"