Evening star., 1923-04-29
The Story the Week Has Told

deprive him of his majority, and to compel him
to resort to general elections. But 1t may
also have another result, not less apparent
namely. the disruption of the Catholic party.
cannot state what the proportions are: but
cord with Mussolinrs policies while the re-
mainder. Of whom the party chief. Don stur-
even vermillion- dyed group of so-called
Christian communists, though. to be sure these
No doubt new elections would produce cham
bsr With fascist plurality but n, hardy bst
much of his masterfulness.
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Misunderstanding to the Associated Press
the all-Russian communist party congress in
session recently resolved on:
Firm adherence to the dictatorship Of the
proletariat; strict government monopoly of
foreign trade: partly direction Of the economic
reconstruction of the country. and approval OF
the export of grain.
Krasin tried in vain to persuade the party
to adopt policy Of compromise with the cap
ernment with ecnomic matters. The Rus
sian communists. it seems are not willing to
ernme3ts for recognition Of the Russian soviet
government. They look to the east the
most our sm in the field for sas ths znoHaS to
revolutionize and our aim in the west is to be
The trial of Patriarch Tikhon has been post
poned indefinitely. Interpret that, who can.
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Turkey.-Fouad Bey, a member Of the Turk
ish national assembly, formerly a member of
the Turkish government and a special
representative in this country of the Angora
government. was the guest of honor at a din
at the Hotel Astor, New York city,
April 20. by the Federated Chambers Of Com
merce Of the near east He and Rear Admiral
Colby NJ Chester, U. s. N, retired, spoke
about the Chester concessions.
The admiral, quoted in the press, de-
ciared himself strongly in favor Of abolition
Of turkeys claim to the Mosu1 ire region i ap'' ~
TO say that the Turks are not competent
He thinks it absurd that the capitniations l
should be imposed on "a state like Turkey.
Guiding Great Britain' There are a good % many
the reference to Great Britain
The Lausanne conference resumed
Switzerland. is chief official observer"
the renewed negotiation He made an i'm
to the effect that the Unied States does not
admit that the sublime porte. when in 1914 it
fact, abolish them. our government maintain
ing the general sa prneiple that tseay can
OF only one of the parties thereto. He added.
eonen at te ms
sion of it's treaties with Turkey" by which he
like the allied governments. be willing to ac-
cept certain guarantees in lieu of the capitula-
tlonS 10 wn1ch lSmet repl1ed IT. erect:
Away with quiddtties-thc captulatory
rights unilateraI grants, and therefore
could lawfully be abolished by unilateral dec
laration. But. call em unilateral. or bilateral.
or multilateral. or what you please, they were.
in fact, abolished in 1914, and that's all there
is to it," There are those who say that the
Turks We're dreadfully shocked by Mr.. Nc
Crews declaration, having satisfied themselves
that our government had been secured their
firm ally through ratification of the Chester
concessions. and would certainly not balk on
the capitua tions
1t is difficult to see how that delicate sub
Ject OF the Chester concessions can be avoid
ed when the conferees come to deal with ar
ticle ninety-four. of the draft treaty which re-
lates to concessions.