The Dallas express. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1893-1970, 1922-12-16
MOSCOW DEMANDS AFRICA FOR
NEGRO.
Soviet Russia Reaffirlns Her Per-
sistent Stand Against ImperiaIist
Exploitation.
OPPOSES LAND GOBBLING.
General elf-DeteIminatiOn Her
Peace Solution for War Wracked
World.


Laussane, Dec. IA CRUSADER Ser
vice. Speaking to Press Correspon-
dents here on the action of the AL
lies in barring his country from
all conference discussions except
those that concern the Straits, M.
Rakoviky, Soviet delegate to the
Lausanne Peace Conference.
Russia" he said, came to Laus-
anne only for free and equal dis
cussion, taking the position that
any one affected has the right of
full participation, There are no
more superior and inferior nations.
I'VE have only one solution for
Turkish and Straits questions. 9th
ers have several and are ready to
negotiate. If 1t is to be a patched
up peace, any solution is good
enough, but If it is to be a durable
peace, ours is the only one which
will satisfy all peoples, East and
West.
I'VE want to see Turkey re-estab-
Used on the nationalistic, non-ag-
gression basis the Angora Assembly
announced. We want to see the
southern frontiers fixed on this basis
so the Turks can live in neighborly
equality with the Arabs and other
neighbors. The question of Mosul,
which is playing such an important
part in blocking progress, should
be treated as a question of pjop-
ulation, not of oil.
"The British claim IL because
IT is oil AS Turkeys friends we
want to see the question treated
according to population.
"Our one and only solution is to
see Turkey reconstructed strong
enough to defend the straits, under
an agreement to let commerce pass
freely, but no battleships.
That is the only way to tran
quilize the Near East. No Western
Power could then dominate the Eas-
tern Mediterranean nor could Rus
STA threaten 1t.
THE British ought with the 9TH
ers to accept our solution. II they
had succeeded in giving CONSTANT
nople to the old Russia as planned,
Russia would have the Eastern Med
iterranean and been constant dan
ger. But with Soviet Russia confined
to the Black Sea, defending itself
as we propose and no one with
the right to attack us through the
straits, the troublesome question Is
settled. For details any one of a
half dozen agreements made in the
last hundred years would do.
I'VE are told our interest is sim
ply in the straits. Even If that is
SO, we are interested in the is
lands in the Aegean. which can
can control the straits. We are in
terested in the dispositian of the
frontier around AdrianDple, which
lis Constantinople's fortification. We
say, as Ambassador hid said, that
there is no way to separate one
Turkish question from another AS
we have one fixed principle for
7ettlement we can afford to wait"
Asked if leaving turkey In com
flete control Of the straights might
not easily block Russia, as happen
ed at the beginning of the last
war. Rakovsky replied:
1T Is impossible to provide
against everything Ours is a choice
between a small nation controlling
a waterway within its own terri
tory or leaving it to the strongest
foreign power. We prefer Turkey.
We want Turkey for the Turks,
Arabia for the Arabs, Africa for
the Africans, as Russia is for the
Russians. accidental geographical
facts like the Dardanelles ana Mosul
oil must conform"