New-York tribune., 1922-10-22
a. William l. McPhcrson


Tsg narrower sense the Ncar
r..psrn conference arranged for
!, The Mudania negotiasors will
j. wr,t. q treaty ending the war be-
.-..r er,sce and the Turkish Nation
.r .,s., ..ass. IN this war, though 1t
-, IA, Of the ssvres treaty and the
's.rts ~ the Allied powers to enforce
+ 4 Great Britain, France and italy, the
,sre. & major signatories, declared their
neutrsiity.
Th.v bsa earlier imposed their will
- .bs .hadowy Tarkish government,
,ronn.a up By Allied bayonets, which
.,xnou,.dged Mahomst vi as Sultan.
y. w, the legitimate ruler Of Turkey
,ra caIiuh Of the Faithful. But the
III. ~ The Turkish people, holding
him to be- 4 prisoner and not free
sgent. refused to be bound by his sig
naturs 10 the humiliating Sevres COM
pses. Trey renounced their allegiance
10 him and, under Mustapha Kemal
pa,ha's leadership. established a new
Turkish government In the Anatolian
highlands. where for time at least ir
would be frss from Allied military
srsssurs.
The Allies. therefore, had a treaty on
.tsir hands which. SO far a. Turkey An
isis was concerned. was not immedi-
sssly enforceable. They looked to
Grsecs. which had been aggrandiaed at
Furksy's expense, TO provide tho armies
Hsh which to enforce 1t. Possibly
Greece would have brought the Ana.o-
ns state to terms II venizelos had
sasinued In power. France and Great
sssin, st least, were In accord In
heking him against Kemal. He had a
pod military organization and ample
/ Asign credit,
But at the most tnopportune moment
Ing Alexander died and the Greek
rople in fit Of tragic levity recalled
sassantine from exile. They not only
nspped horses In mid-stream, but ex-
AAnged an animal sound in wind and
an5 for spawned and string haltered
~ He had been deposed because he
Id played false to the Entente during
10 Great War and had been abjectly
Ho-Gsrman. The Allied powers could
ut trust him as their agent In the Near
hit. Nor could they control him.
When they tried to compromise with
Ksnal early in 1921 he broke away
INN them and engaged on his own
a@sir war of conquest in Asia.
NAs Now Must Liquidate
hsadous Defeat Of Greece
Ahthis war, ending In inglorious
esfsas for Greece and Constantine's
heass expulsion. which the Allied
powers have now to liquidate. Greece,
1sas loser, will forfeit her territorial
sn' under the Savres treaty. The
Aagora regime. sas the victor, will re-
@1sf most Of the old Turkish patri-
sony of which the Sultan's govern
snt was stripped at the 1920 peace
able. This restitution applies almost
nsirely to that part of the old Turk
ID Empire which may be called the
turkish homeland. The Arab parts, In
ending Kurdistan, perhaps, are lost
Tor good. They acquired independence
Or have been detached under mandates
70 Great Britain and France. And the
Nationalist government has not been
making war on these mandate holders.
Outside Of the Turkish homeland An
scra has reconquered Armenia within
the boundaries Of the old empire and
absorbed BY treaty with Soviet Russia
some Of the Caucasus districts which
we're lost In the Russian war of
ls77-7s.
In the larger sense, however, the
peace conference will not merely end |
esscalized war between the new Turk |
'sn state and Greece. It will be general
aa scope, continuing the unfinished re-
tonstructlon work of the Paris confer
ence The treaty of Sevres--the last of
we farls treaties-has broken down. 1t
mas already been revised three times
0y the major powers in an effort to
ea!snslo the problem Of the Straits
ana Of sovereignty over the Straits re-
Tion.
oohsroi OF Constantinople and the
ssaseWay from the Black Sea to the
Saiseffsnean Is one Of the primary
a'efns OF European diplomacy. It
.s.'s not only Europe. but Asia and
air'cs as we'll. It's involvement with
sAs .ehsious prejudices Of Islam causes !
m.s ssa40na'e repsrcussions among the
aaonetan peoples liyinr under
siopean rule The original savres
luton nss had 20 be abandoned. A
~" s0iu'ion must be embodied in a
s,,s'.,,, ssy Wl,a + the new Turkey. which has
s.se.ainsd the agreements as.ented to
sultan. n's o1 puppe'
40, 70 understand fully ths question With
sh the conference is to deal we
.ss go back to the sevres compact.
,ss, sa,u august 10, 1920. and the seven
~ 'ary agreements signed on
A.. su's cate, many of which have
=. become imperative. The Council
s. ambassadors, 9 which drew up the
4. raris treaty. did not err on the
.as ef lsnity toward -. ~,