San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-03-21
Document Is Completed
and On Way to Paris and
London Ministers.
1T .FAVORS TURKEY
France May Demand Alter
tons But British Have
Fared Well.
BY CONSTANTINE BROWN.

Special Cable to the San Antonio Light
=. and the Chicago Daily News.
Copyright, 1928.
Unconstitutional, March 20. - The
SolhminOus peace treaty draft which
was handed over to the allied high
commissioners Friday night was sent
to Paris and London by special mes
senger Sunday morning. Unless some
thing quite unforeseen occurs allied of
ficials here are confident that peace
will be signed before the end OF
April.
If the peace draft is examined in
the light of the fact that Turkey. as
defeated nation, managed TO obtain
conditions giving it far better sit
nation than it has known before in
the last $50 years despite all the
allied undertakings TO expel the Turks
from Europe, then the peace certainly
means defeat and humiliation for the
allies. 1t also gives an instructive
example to other defeated nations
that the treaties they consider unjust
are not inviolable or sacred docu-
ments and that with q little strength
and energy they can easily be chang
ed.
Turkey Given Fair Chance.
II the treaty is examined from
point of view Of justice the allies
should be congratulated for having
recognized wrongs and played fair
with the Turks by giving them a
chance TO prove their ability to live
as an entirely free and independent
nation. 1t is still argued by some
sentimentalists that while the inhabi-
tants of Germany. Austria and Hun
gary are paying heavily for the mis-
the war. the Turks who committed
takes of their leaders. who provoked
even quite recently cruelties against
defenseless populations, are permitted
to rule almost the same territories
they ruled before the war. Further
more, IL is argued that the allies in
their haste to remedy the injustice of
the treaty of Sevres and possibly on
account of their weakness. agreed to
abolish the capitulations which are
the main protection of foreigners
against eventual Turkish misrule.
The new treaty should put Turkey
on a more solid basis than ever. 1t
rids the nation Of Syria and Arabia
whose turbulent populations were in
the past a permanent source of
worry and expense. 1t diminishes the
Turkish public debt because it is to
be shared among detached territories
and the arrears owed to France,
Great Britain and Belgium are to be
paid in paper instead of gold. The
new treaty also abolishes the finan-
cial capitulations enabling the govern
ment to tax foreign individuals and
companies operating in Turkey.
British Diplomatic VictOrs.
In the coming conference in May
conflict is expected between France
and Turkey because all the British
demands are fully satisfied. Diplo-
matically Lord Curzon may claim a
complete victory because even his
suggestion that the Mosul dispute
should be submitted to the League of
Nations was adopted by the national
assembly. The Turks went so far in
meeting the British demands that they
abandoned even Karagatch. accepting
the condition that the railroad station
SO important to the economic develop
ment of Adrianople should remain in
Greek hands. In exchange it is
whispered in Angora that the Brit
ish promise TO raise no objection to
the complete abolition of the capitula-
tons and the settlement in favor of
Turkey of the public debt question
in which France is interested to the
extent of Go per cent.