Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1923-02-07
EXPECTED SUCCESS

London, Feb. 6. (By A. Pas bet
ween Turkey and the Allies, the sit
i uation is distinctly improved, but it
is still doubtful if the treaty will be
signed before Ismet Pasha leaves
Lausanne for Angora. ga
The cabinet council met today
without Lord Curzon, who was in
disposed, and discussed the subject
! of the Near East settlement only
briefly. The developments include
the receipt by the foreign Office of
note from Premier Poincare init
! mating the willingness of the Turks
to sign the treaty, but. according to
information in official circles, with
certain reservations or conditions,
the nature Of which is not definitely
disclosed, but which are supposed to
concern, capitulations and economic
questiOns-in fact, similar reserya-
tions to those which on Sunday pre-
vented signature of the treaty. ra.,
! 1t is understood that NJ. Poincare
suggested that the signing of the
I treaty should take place at Paris
before 1smet Pasha leaves for home.
The British governments position is
! that if the Turks are ready to sign
| Internationally it is ready to send
representative 10 Paris to meet Is
met for affixing of signatures and it
! is understood that a reply in this
sense has been forwarded to the
! French premier.
Marquis Curzon. British foreign
secretary. declared in lengthy
statement to the press this evening
| that he was content to be judged"
! by the results of the Near East
| peace conference at Lausanne. He
, believed that he had returned not
with defeat. but with victory and
f. that the treaty with the Turks. in
stead of being torn up, would still be
signed.
! Whatever may be the future" said
| his statement. Il console myself with
| one ref1ection-that whenever / had
every excuse for complaining that
the Allied unity had been endan-
gered by the action of outside par
! ties, l declined to swerve an inch
from the position 1 took up before l
went to Lausanne and to which the
British delegation adhered unflinch-
ingly for IL weary, anxious weeks
namely, that it was only by abso-
lutte unbroken solidarity between
Great Britain, France and Italy that
L
secured.
| when others tall el of separate
treaties, I rejected the overtures and
| preferred to fall with my Allies
F., rather than win a selfish victory on
| thc field of self-interest or exclusive
ly national advantage. I am content
r., to be judged by the results"
! Lord CurZOn emphasized his eX-
IRENE surprise over the Turks final
refusal to sign when apparently
everything in the draft treaty had
been accepted.
/ He claimed that the Turks had
been met with generosity unex-
! ampled in dealing with a vanquished
| power, and that, when they refused
| to sign. NJ. Bompard Of the French
delegation, denounced their refusal as
| "a crime"
The minister insisted that he was
not working merely for the British
interest alone. but for Allied unity
and the cause of general peace.
| Constantinople, Feb. 6-(By A. P.)
THE reassuring news from Laus-
anne indicating new approaches to-
ward a settlement is reflected here in
the cheerful tone prevailing in both
| foreign and Turkish circles. The
evening papers say that, barring the
unexpected, peace is certain.
| There is reason to believe that
Ismet Pasha's about face" afteEs RI
fusal to sign, was due to urgent IN
structions which left Angora the
| same day.
Exchange hardened after the sharp
break of yesterday.