New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1922-08-06

dertaken during the last few
n days by the government OF
Ring Constantine Of Greece represent
Its of veritable desperation. They
..,r every earmark of an attempt TO
So. Aha issue in the Near East, in
sss hope that the Allies will at last
.Ave up the policy of INDIGESTION which
s.x characterized their dealing with
a. .;.nation there since the end of the
var and will enter upon the road of
some sort Of action
Greece has now been engaged in al
nost continuoas fighting for ten years.
Tho two Balkan wars and the World
War required from Greece enormous
...,,sces .af blood and treasure and
brought with them tremendous gains.
1Bis is especially true of the World
usr in the settlement of which Greece
.r,,arently succeeded in obtaining for
hs,self most important advantages.
put those advantages were not secured
bv the situation which unfolded itself
.urins the years that have now elapsed
- since the asrnistice. On the contrary,
the securing of them has required from
Greecs new efforts and new sacrifices.
Her war with Turkey did not end in
October, 1913, when the armistice with
Turkey was signed by the Allies. 1t
hes continued to the present day and
resulted In several trying and bloody
campaigns In the rugged territory Of
Anatolia. And finally, to cap the situa-
ton, the Allies demanded from Greece
last March that she give up some Of
the advantages she thought she had
obtained.
Exhausted by decade Of fighting,
having almost doubled her territory
and her population in the course Of
that decade, Greece feels more and
more the need Of turning to peaceful
pursuits and consolidating her new in
ternal position. But she cannot do
this until her external position Is
placed on q basis of some sort of per-
manency. This, in turn, depends upon
Turkeys acceptance of definite post
war adjustment. So far Turkey has
accepted nothing. Her present rulers,
divided as they are on internal prob
lens, are canny enough to realize that
she can afford to wait when her chief
opponent, Greece, cannot. They are
building their whole policy-and, SO
far, with marked SUCCESSION the fact
that their advantage lies in keeping
the Allies divided among themselves
and In wearing Greece down by a pro-
traction Of the settlement. In this
regard time is eminently with Turkey
and just as eminently against Greece.
Greece Defies Allied Powers
In Creating State of Ionia
The announcement of the Greek
command at Smyrna concerning the
creation there Of an autonomous state
Of lonia, under q Greek protectorate
is direct defiance on the part Of
Greece Of the Allied powers. The mass
ing of troops on the lines of approach
to Constantinople and the formal re.
quest for Allied permission to march
into the capital of Turkey constitutes
no less challenge Of the whole Near
Eastern policy now pursued by the AL
lies Whatever the result of these two
challenges may be, their immediate eff
1ect certainly focuses attention on the
Near East ssnd may lead to drastic
measures on the part of the Allies.
The treaty Of Sevres, which formally
terminated Turkeys participation in
the world War gave Greece the Sultan's
most important possession in Europe.
ihrace, and one of his most valued
territorial treasures in Asia Minor, the
district of Smyrna. By the time the
treaty was signed, the Greeks were al
he 4Taay In military occupation of
'rnyrna, which was effected bv than, in
May 1919, at the express invitation of
britain and France. The rea-
son Tor this occupation was twofoId
IN the first place, the district of
'"SrhS' the population of (which is
over million, contains over 500 o0o
wrecks whose safety was threatened
" the rising temper of the Turks.
o in the second place, Italy was at
,"s' Time conducting policy in the
wear East which was entirely out of
~ with the policy pursued by
"o test OF the Allies. Even before the
eeAs occupied Smyrna the Italians
eu already landed troops in the dis
'. VI Aoalla, in the southern part of
Sha'oiia' and were preparing to occupy
emyrna. Under these circumstances
se'"enceau and Lloyd George. per-
eo 'enizelos to occupy Smyrna and
sven dispatched Allied warships there
=, august the difficulties which were
"iy TO arise between the Greeks and
the Italians. '''N
"hen the treaty of Sevres was an
1Nceo the Turkish leaders refused
~ fatify it. The Kemal movement
t'ea IN Anatolia for the express
pose Of resisting the ratification
- 'he treaty. The points on which
Ae Renal Nationalists were part;cu.
AIRY insistent were the evacuation of