Evening star., 1923-02-11
The Story the Week Has Told

I l think ] have fairly indicated the
main developments of the week.
+ Other aspects of the situation-the
mine output in the Ruhr basin. the
| condition of the great industries
other than mining, the attitude OF
! German functionaries, the reactions
of unoccupied Germany. etc---no ma
| terial change in these during the
week has been reported
The very latest report (Which,
however. | cite doubtfully) calls for
, more modifica tion of the above. The
German railwaymen in the Ruhr are
| said to he on general strike again,
! thus further retarding the French
| plan for shipments of fuel to France
and Belgium, because of further de-
mands on French personnel in order
| to insure distribution OF food and
other necessities to the Ruhr popula
| tion.
Lausanne and After-On the 4Ih
! the Lausanne conference ended. No,
! was suspended: for on leaving for
( Paris NJ. Bompard. the chief French
I delegate. declared: Nothing is
broken off. There is no rupture
merely a suspension OF the confer
ence. The secretary general remains
in Lausanne until further orders.
/ l ne SeCTeldTldI Ot tHc coHlSIelCe
! continues to function normally"
! What is more important, 1smet
! Pasha, departing for Angora, de-
clared himself to the same effect to
/ the secretary general of the confer
ence; he added that the Mudania
armiStice remained effective. He left
a secretary at Lausanne.
Lord CurZon had sworn by his hopes
of a dukedom TO leave Lausanne on
{ the 4th and he did. Ismet had pro-
posed to strike out from the treaty
| offered him the economic and finan-
| cial clauses and those proposing
substitute for the capitulations, leay-
| ing those matters to further negotia-
| ton. and to sign the treaty SO mutt
lated. Lord CurZon, NJ. Bompard and
the Marquis Di Garroni. the chief
| representatives of Great Britain.
| France and Italy, would not hear to
such an arrangement. The treaty, they
| insisted. would be fatally imperfect,
| a mere makeshift, without the
| clauses Ismet proposes to lop off; the
| been eXhaustively canvassed, further
| debate thereon you'd be useless, they
said. Lord Curzon quite justly urged
upon Ismet that acceptance of the
| Turkish state in q. position not only
| of political independence and as
sured sovereignty. but of mill
! tary and territorial security, such as
Turkey never De1Ore enjoyed even IN
, the plentitude of her power" No
doubt Ismet admitted in his mind the
truth Of the above. and most prob
ably. allowed full discretion. he
would have signed the treaty without
! important modification. But almost
not to sign. Those country gentlemen
| of the Angora assembly are suffering
| from the combined effects of igno-
rance and swelled head. They are
i ~ ~ ~
Greece threatens to prove their un-
doing. Unless they give heed to the
returning Ismet talking reason, as l
| feel sure he will. they are likely to
imperil the legitimate gains achieved
movement. That is. IL the allies con-
, tinue TO stand together.
! SPACE is lacking for any but the
! briefest notice of the new develop
ment at Smyrna. As the reader
allied high commissioners at Con-
stantinople and to the commanders
! of foreign war vessels in Smyrna har-
bor. that after February no foreign
| 1000, would be allowed In Smyrna
f, Earbor and that not more than one
such Insignificant craft of any foreign
nation would be allowed. there at a
time. The high commissioners pro-
tested vigorously to Angora and notl-
1
| graphed Angora where to get off
| and ordered powerful warcraft to
Smyrna to test the Turkish order
| That. of course. is the way to deal
with the Turk. The Smyrna COM
mandant having been told to go to
the devil by the foreign naval com
| manders in the harbor and seeing
| their ships cleared for action post
poned the operation of the order to
sunset of the 9th. Just ere the sun
went down he informed those belli-
cose (and doubtless IN consequence
! disa pnointed) gentlemen that by in
: structions from Angcra .the status
4 nuo would be maintained until the
! issue was settled by dipiomatic
| means This business Will furnish
| ont a comic chapter for the histories.
Angora's communications with the out
side world are limited.
| Can il be that the Smyrna order
| was the prouoSterouS expression OF IL
| blue funk at Angora caused by in