Evening star., 1922-04-06
GREEKS INTERESTS
|NAS|A minor VITAL
Occupied Land Linked to Ma
ton in Many Ways, Declares
Attorney +, Letter.

! The viewpoints Of Greece and Ar.
menia on the recent action Of the al.
lied ministers in Paris in deciding
that an armistice, should be signed
between the Greeks and he-Turks
and that the Greeks should evacuate
Asia Minor within five months are
contained in letters to the Editor Of
! The Star from Soterios Nicholson, an
attorney of this city, and G. H.
Papazian. secretary of the Armenian
National Union Of America, with
headquarters in Boston, Mass.
Mr.. Nicholson declares in his letter
that the Greeks are the people most
directly and vitality interested In the
welfare OF the Christians in western
Asia Minor, because that territory
was Greek from time immemorial
and 1t is now occupied mostly by
Greeks" Western Asia Minor, he
SAID, Is as much a Greek land as
Macedonia and Thrace In history,
! geography language and religion.
The allies. therefore, were right to
send Greek troops to Asia Minor to
| enforce the treaty of Sevres and pro-
tect the Christians from being siaugh-
tered by the hemalists," he stated.
willing to Aid Christians.
Afte.' became apparent that
kcmai Pasna, in secret understanding
with the sultan, was organizing the
NATIONALIST movement ia Turkey to
cS.aDAisn an independent government
1in -Angora. to repuuiate the Sevres
treaty and proceed with his program
or determination OF the remaining
! non -Moslem elements under hisr con-
troi, Mr. NlcnUiSOn says the Greeks,
although mUDiiized against the Turks
since 1912, willingly accepted to bear
all the sacrifices necessary to liberate
the Christians from the bloo1thirsty
Now the Greeks are called upon
by the same allies to sign ans arm
istice with KemaI Pasha and evacu-
! ate Asia Minor" continues the letter.
The wrong Is apparept. The treaty
| lice that the Christian peoples of
| ASIA Minor received as a most meager
| reward OF their tremendOus. sacri-
! fees to the cause of the allies
/; Mr.. Papazian, speaking for the
| ArInenians, says:
THE revision of the treaty of
| Sevres in favor of the Turks Just
made by the allied ministers in con-
! terence at Paris and the violation Of
| menian people during the war and
| since the armistice is SO fragrant a
| break Of international honor as to
| necessitate protest from America.
hiS' II we may JuuSc lTOH tHe Oplu-
ion voiced In the press, is the feeling
| OF the whole country"
"More' Than, . Betrayal"
Mr.. Papazian says the action of the
| allied ministers involves more than
| a betrayal of a particular people. It
amounts fatty to a reputation Of o.
| legations and engagements made with
America upon her entrance into the
war"
Such gross disregard of elementary
justice. he said. unless in some de-
gree righted. cannot fail to rankle
| in the heart of humanity and to lead
to serious arrangements between
peoples and in the end to further con-
| flicts.
America" he continued, will be
doing no more than the world expects
and her own honor demands If she in
forms the allied powers that the be-
trayal of the Armenian people was
not one of the objects for which sine
sent her men overseas"
In reference to an armistice, Mr..
Nicholson says: There can be no
armistice between Turkey and any
other nation, much less with Greece.
The Turks have no honor to observe
the terms of an armisticc, nor of any
treaty between themselves and a
Chr stian nation. All treaties and
agreements they regard as scraps of
paper. This is not a new instance of
the Turks unwillingness to respect
the law. 1t has been proved time and