New-York tribune., 1922-12-03
s.,,r, Is Prepare dso Go to
nan dangerous Lengths in an
TSfort to Maintain Full
Toutrol of the Black Sea
surprise at Lausanne
,..;.,epcc by Moscow of
pre.wsr Status Causes
,Ilied Delegates to Gasp
Nv Wilbur Forrest
90, coM. 10 rae T,r0v~s

u ..,lvsy ssstiOn TO protect the
s = n, frst BOlshevik delegate
,',,,s % for the Near East Conference;
s'in', ain express steamed In and
n'.. Is' ', ,,,tr,ordlrsry happened. The
,'.... ....,,., reported to their chief that
tfs's, had not arrived. They
=, ,rp.s.a 70 80 . cartoon ., nus
10 5..ns. a. 70 fHms and with
nsn' ~, Asu,, and bris;ling beard.
hn a. Taxov dslsgsse had arrived,
, ~. y. vas chhstisn Rskowsky'
s,.,, S'r q tls Utrainisn Republic,
IT. 49, bi, sppssrnnco he might as
~ ,.,, been Of any one Of n dozen
.,.s.lI,la Including the Swiss.
-,.s Nm vss his Russian wife and
y. ..,rsu, a middle-sged Lsttish
woman
rs,v we're greeted on the railway
,,stt,nn by N. vorovsky, whose real
,rrs 10 Diedman.
r.iossky himself can lay small
.l,,u 70 Russian blood, and speaks the
I.r.r poorly. He is . Dobrujan.
~. bat Part Of old Bulgaria whore
A. r,w have been mixed for so many
r,urs the Inhabitants can claim no
drfs blood.
M. allen-to- Russia delegation came
sfsossnns unseen and unheralded by
4. swsss dsssetiyes. but from the
An, Of their arrival they stirred
Alss, much as q bunch Of frecrack-
-, nirht arouse q church congrega-
ion.
IN less than twenty-four hours q
Soviet bomb struck the conference in
q. form Of . document OF several
Kindred words demanding everything.
Il ,hook Allied solidarity 80 hard K
,,ct three days for England, France
rd Italy to recover 70 the point OF
ut,ng an snswer, and the conference
ss,, done virtuslly nothing since and
faces imminent collapse.
Demand Straits Pre-War Status
On Monday, eight days after the ar
rival Of n. Russian delegates, the con-
ference is scheduled 70 begin the dis
suss!on of that moot question, the
status Of the Straits Of the Dsrda-
n.nes, which the Allies agree should
Be demilitsrlEed and free to all ma
tlcnst under some form Of interna-
tional control. To which the Russians
answer.
"Yes. that's all night; but you aren't
talking about the demilitarizstion Of
shs waters Of the Straits-only the
land. We insist that tho pre-war status
Of these waters be resfirmed, whereby
no vsrships Of any nation may entor
them either from the Mediterranean
or The Black Sea-"
Now. this is extremely annoying TO
the British, whe hadn't visualized the
Russian buttlnskis here insisting on
. solution which will keep their navy
from controlling the Straits and like
viw the Black Sea. The Turks had
cared little what happened TO the
Straits, and the Russians knew IT,.
Therefore the diplomatic noise incident
70 The arrival Of Rskowsky promises
% shrink to the detonstion Of a pop
gss In comparison with the explosion
tined for Monday, because meantime
As Soviet big gun, George Tchiteh-
IN has reinforced his alien crew,
EAas main duty ia Lausanne before
eis arrival was to- worry the Allies,
psrtieularly the British. and stiffen
ne vertebrae Of reek-msnnered little
i'net Psshs, who has been as putty
in The hands Of such sstute diplomats
as Marquis curzon.
Russians Looking Toward Home
While the Straits Settlement means
V'ry little TO Ismet, he Is now solid
on the Russian side as a matter Of
principle. To those who have studied
vhss now Is generally accepted as the
russian "biuf"-the tendency to hurl
ssa-'oundins notes at .vsrybody's
~d, stirring up cOnferentisl politics
an.y did at Genoa-the real pur-
~h regarded as being veiled. The
'.ns are held 70 be lighting to
aAemselvss on footing of equal
%n'h the great powers, but they
~ forced TO conduct themselves In
%s0ubastic fashion TO keep the boys
rome (the proletarisns and peas
saal satisfied that their representa-
=" arc carrying on the hgat In ira
1nensl Bolshevik fashion, thus agi-
~ahg the bourgeois statesmen.
Il rehiteherin and Rakowsky wrote
diplomatic notes In the same
S'n'Asd phrases as Poincare and Cur
~ ,hsy would invite the suspicion
MOSCOW that they had been con-
wee 70 capitalism. Rakowsky pre-
~no one Of his notes to the Allies
'ns lobby Of the Savoy Hotel, with
, ~ we making suggestions while the
s's n''n secretary put down the words
~ AZ /. stub pencil. tie end Of which
ehe"ed nervOusiy between writ
~ ana taking prOdigious gulps of
, IS. coffee. This incident was prom
sy ..auy published in the Moscow
~. - Russians are here prepared to
ri ani or blackjack the Allies into
Amy their program for the