Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1922-10-13
ARMISTICE IN NEAR EAST.

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ARMISTTCE IN NEAR EAST.
TOR the time being at least the
L war between Turkey and
Greece is at an end, and a confer
ence will shortly take place to ar
range the terms of peace. While
technically the war is between
Turkey and Greece, the latter will
have very little to say about the
terms of peace. Greece Is badly
beaten and were it not for the fact
that Great Britain, for reasons of
self interest, has taken her part,
Greece would get hard treatment
from the hands of the victorious
Turk. But Great Britain stands in
the way with her dreadnaughts and
their mighty guns pointed at Con-
stantinople and the Turkish army
surrounding the city of the Mar
row Seas.
1t is by no means certain that
the conferences to come will result
in permanent peace in the Near
East, though we may hope that it
will. Now as always in the past
century the great powers of Eu-
rope are jealous and suspicious of
each other in their Near East poll
cies, and the Turk has always skill
fully used such jealousies for his
own advantage. Now it is one ma
ton which supports the cause of
the Turk through jealousy and now
it is another. England saved the
Turk from the Russians in the days
of Disraeli. Then Great Britain
was the dearest and best friend of
the Turks. Next the kaiser sup
planted Great Britain in Turkeys
affections. Then France wooed
her and won her, much to the in
dignation of the other European
nations who had formerly posed as
her friends and lovers. Just now
she has two strings to her bow,
France and Russia. Both of them
have been secretly supplying the
Kemalists with wal material, it
now appears. 1t was French 7ss
that created CONSERVATION and rout
! in the Greek army. The French
had occupied the province of CT
ella, which adjoins Anatolia, claim
ing it as well as the province of
Syria. Secretly and without the
knowledge of Great Britain or the
other allies France made a treaty
with Renal Pasha, head of the
Young Turks, about a year ago. BY
the terms of this treaty the French
retired from Cecilia, and gave it
I'D to the Turks. In consideration
of this Renal and the Angora gov
eminent recognized the right Of
France to rule in Syria. When this
treaty became public Lloyd George
threw a fit. II was the beginning
of the open breach between France
and England. Since then it has de-
veloped that a part of the Turkish
deal with France provided that the
French should leave their artillery
and munitions of wal behind them
when they evacuated Cecilia. 1t
was this war material that enabled
the Turks to defeat the Greeks in
Asia Minor at a later day.
incidentally this deal is of some
little interest to us in the United
States. France has been assuring
US that she is too poor to pay back
any of the money borrowed OF us.
The thing is impossible. But she
is not too poor to make expensive
presents to the bloody Turks, it
seems. American citizens will make
a note of the fact.
Woodrow Wilson said that the
Turks must be driven out of Eu-
rope. American opinion supported
that statement. They were driven
out, but they are brought back once
more by European jealousy. 1t is
agreed in advance of the conference
that they are to have eastern Thrace
and constantinople. The only ques-