Evening star., 1922-10-15
NEW BALKAN WARS
SEEN BY TARD|EU
Allies Allowing Turks to In
/, stall Gendarmerie Held
Big Mistake.
FEARS NEW MASSACRES
French Publicist Says Near East
Trouble due to U. S. Failing to
Accept Armenian Mandate.
FEARS new MASSACRES
by ANDRE TARDIEI.
Former French High Commissioner to
the United States.

Special Cable 10 The sta.
PARIS October 1i.-After another
brief scare due to Lord Curzon 5 sudden
visit to Paris the Mudania agreeme mt
IS signed and delivered. 1t marks an
other great concession by the powers 10
The Turks. Whereas the agreement OF
September 25 only provided that Thrace
saaId b, delivered TO kemal and his
forces following signing of formal
peace, the arInistice agreement allows
him within Il fortnight To install a gov
srnmeut and. what is worse. Seuuariil-
erie.
1t takes Il clever mind to distinguish
between tn. Turkish gendarme and a
Turkish soldier. Both are masters at
Ihs art Of torturiug Christians.
.\ppar rcntly the return OF the TURK
arouSes no emotion IN either f.ngGtnu
or France. In France the sent -"tuciai
press has succeeded In pcrSuadlnS tue
peopl, that We We're within AN inch OF
war, consequently there is rejoicing
that ii has been ;.vcrttd- although. truti
10 tell. il never was imminent. More
over, the opposition developing IN Lon
don against Lloyd George strengthens
the Paris legend that Puinc,,re obtained
a great triumph over his British col
league. which iS ridiculous. since the
French policy has finished by placing
me baruancIlCS exclusively uflutE bi't-
lsh control
French Gice PnradONical.
Il is astonishingly paradoxica! that
French opinion is gleeful over the re-
turn of the Turk TO Europe. That JOY
will not last. In England Lloyd George
undoubted laundering has made the
near eastern question battle-ground
IF parties. enabling Il coalition of the
opponents of the premier. The latter
,nd h,.S on
break the long silence with his Man
chester speech and other party leaders
are taking the platform to debate the
merits of the case. The Christians in
Thrace, even at the straits. are for
gotten in the party frtcas. 1t is not
the first time in England and elsewhere
that party strife takes priority over ma
tional interest.
1t is impossible to ov.restinate the
extreme gravity of the events now
unfolding. Not alone is victory can
c-l-d on one OF the, wars greatest
battlefields after only four years;
not only is il wonderful encourage
nent for the panGermans and the
according to the latest agreements.
We now have the same territorial
situation which provoked all Balkan
wars, whose effect on European pol
Icy is only too well known.
Blame Part American.
When the Turks and Christians
clash in Macedonia war is ineyita BILE.
and il is curious that the French
papers ignore this truth taught by
long experience. Added to This is the
Russian danger. for the SOvietS. like
the Kemalists and Germans. have ter
ritory to rsconQuer to ,ffacc the peace
which they never have recognized
American public opinion seems to
see further than the French and Brit
.sh. American newspapers are dis
turbed by the refux OF Turkish bar
hariSm. and they are right. but. to be
perfectly frank. ! must say the United
States is largely responsible for the
existing conditions. If the United
States had not quit the game SO alb
ruptly in 1920 and had accepted the
proposed Armenian mandate. ii could
have exercised "a happy influence in
the Levant, restrained the absurd
megaIomania of the Greeks. encoUr-
aged by the English. and curbed
Frances pro-Kenalist zeal Thus the
perfectly just criticisms of the Ameri-
can press lose some of their force.
In general, it is going to be rather
difficult for America to convince Eu-
rope of her viewpoint after declaring
she desires to have nothing more in
common with Europe. AbStention is
not Il method Of action. Action entails
risks, and whoever refuses risks can
not expect to influence solutions
With this reservation, | heartily agree
with the American press that Europe
is committing gross StupiditieS in the
near east.
Uopy right. iS2-.i