The New York herald., 1922-12-13
Turkey Agrees to Let $780,
600 Greeks Stay in Capt.
tai at Own Risk.
REFUSES ALL GUARANTEES
Will Make Formal Reply To-
day to Curzon's Appeal for
Humane Treatment.
ny LAURENCE HILLS.

COPYRIGHT. 1929, by The New YORK HERALD
LAUSANNE, Dec 12.-The Turks to-
day announced in the Near East con-
ference that they would permit the
$4,000 Greeks to remain in Con-
stantinople. but showed no disposition
to give guarantees for the protection
Of Christian minorities, or to accord
Armenians
The Turks will reply tomorrow to
a proposal by Lord Curzon that they
formally give such guarantees and ac-
cept the idea of homeland for the
Armenians. But the reply of the
Turks to Lord Curzon to-day was an
attack upon the Armenians for bring
ing their troubles upon themselves. as
well as an arraignment of the Euro
pean Powers for melting the minori-
ties to political aims in the past. "un-
der the lying cloak of humanitarian
ISM" The Turks. in effect. also said
that they wanted no Christian minori-
ties in their country.
An American declaration. made by
Ambassador Richard w. Child. based
upon broad humanitarian grounds, de-
clared the Turks should recognize the
rights of minorities. including the Ar
menians. 1t contained no specific recon-
mendation for homeland for the Ar
menians, which has raised so much In
terests in the United States. 1t did not.
as had been hoped among those who
are working here in that cause, open a
stiff fight at the outset by all the ma
lions. including america, for Armenian
and Christian minorities generally, nor
did it make peremptory demand on
behalf Of all Christian nations that the
Turks observe Christian precepts
Turks Cali Note Vague.
Comment in the Turkish delegation
tonight is that the American note Is
very vague and ambiguous. and that
H. for instance. one OF its paragraphs
meant to demand territorial refuge
within the limits of Turkey for any
minority such as the Armenians, this
could not be tolerated unless they were
kept under a superior force of Turks.
The Turks showed their indignation at
Lord Curzon's proposal for ,ne League
OF Nations plan, which would put
resident league commissioner IN each
district wherein there are minorites.
insistence upon this. 1t was said. would
mean absolute rupture of the conference.
Although In the Treaty of Sevres the
Allies imposed conditions upon the
Turks, to-day they began to bargain
with them on subject which has
aroused the Christian world. The Ar
menians had been hoping that their plea
for a national home in the part OF Cili-
cia given back by France to the Turks
would be made one of the Allies chief
conditions Instead, Lord Curzon seems
to favor the Armenians' return to the
Soviet Armenian republic In Anatolia.
which already is overpopulated by l.
100000 Armenians and where the Ar
menians would be surrounded by their
hereditary enemies.
Armenians who have fled from Asia
Minor are unwilling to take this chance.
An American committee has been work.
ing here night and day to obtain the
Allies support OF the Cilician project
with the idea that IL Cilicia is selected
10 place there 150. 900 orphans now in
American hands and about 100000 Ar
menian refugees scattered In Greece and
the Aegean Islands. But this plan ap-
parently has not received the fun assem-
OF the allied Governments.
There are no minorities In Turkey
right now who can claim legitimately
that they belong there" said 1smet to
Lord Curzon at one stage of the pro-
ceedings. The Turkish plan. sum-
married, seems to be, first, for the
exclusion of all foreign interference
henceforward in Turkey-meaning In
so many words that foreign Govern
ments shall not continue to demand
guarantees or protect these minorities;
second, the exchange of populations
until no Greeks remain save those In
Constantinople; third. that those who
remain, like the Constantinople Greeks,
must take their chances without guar.
antics. their safety depending entirely
upon the Turks idea OF good Will and
justice.
Cnrzon's Plea.
The whole speech of Lord Curzon was
an appeal to the Turks to change their
general intransigent attitude on this
question. as between 100000 and s0o.o
Christians had been expatriated from
Turkey. a dispersal. he called IL. with
out precedent in history. Lord Curzon
said the Turks last September had ac-
cepted the Paris note making this one
of the conditions for the return OF east
crn Thrace to them. Now that the Al
lies had returned eastern Thrace the
Turks should fulfill their obligations
None of this seemed to make much
impression upon the Turkish ENJOYS,
who replied that minorities we're not
wanted and virtually did not exist. The
Turks seemed 70 act as though they had
the Allies at their mercy. and the Allies
IS IL fearful of arousng the Turks. This
was frankly explained tonight as the
first result OF the Allies failure to get
to an agreement in London yesterday.
every division OF opinion serving to
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