Evening star., 1923-01-31
TURKS ASK TIME
TO WEIGH TERMS;
ALLIES NEAR SPLIT
British Concede Few Days
After French Threaten to
Bolt Previous Agreement.
CURZON SAYS WORLD
IS AWAITING RESULTS
Declares Terms Look to Upbuilding
of Better Relationships
Through Its Generosity.

Through It's Generosity.
Py tie Associated Press.
LAUSANNE, January 3l,--lsmet
Pasha, head Of the Turkish delega-
tion to the near east conference, ask
ed the conference today for delay
of two weeks before the signature of
peace and a delay of eight days be-
fore a meeting of the conference
commission. The interval would be
employed he explained, in striving
by every means to reach an agree
ment. The Turks desired the delay
of eight days so that they need not
give a definite reply as to acceptance
of the treaty until that time expired.
The session was suspended to allow
the allies to reach an agreement on
the reply to be made to Ismet.
On the resumption of the conference
session Lord Curzon announced 1t
would be impossible completely to
satisfy the Turkish requirements as
to time. but personally he was ready
TO remain at Lausanne until Sunday
evening.
A long consultation among the al
lied delegates in an endeavor To main
tain united front against the Turks
preceded the opening of the confer
ence All the allied delegations. in
cludng, the Americans, agreed that
the negotiations could not be. long
protracted.
Would End Warfare.
Lord Curzon, in beginning his ad-
dress in the session today. said the
primary object of the treaty was to
bring TO an end the terrible war which
had desolated eastern Europe and
large areas Of Asia for more than
eight years. and thus enable all the
various armies. whether allied. Turk
islI or Greek. to go back to their
homes The treaty also was designed
to enable the Turkish state. which
was vanquished in the war with the
allies. but victorious over Greece, to
resume its place as consolidated
state and re-enter the comfy OF ma
tions.
Lord Curzon said every one regret
ted that there had not been an agree
ment as to every clause in the treaty.
but time was pressing and Europe.
and. indeed. the whole world was
waiting. not for further debates. but
FOR results. Therefore 1t was felt to
be in the public interest that the pro-
ceedings should be brought to
termination. he hoped they might
bc. by common consent.
Lord CurZon said the treaty was in
tended to build up relationships of
amity, good will and friendly inter
course on equal terms between the
Turkish state and the other powers of
Europe.
Peace. reconstruction and cooper
alton are the three objects" he said
He added that the question was how
far the conferees had succeeded in OBJ
tanning them in the document pre-
sented today. He was far from think
ing their labors had been in vain. a q
considerable amount Of suspicion
which had hung about the earlier
meetings. had been blown away by
the breezes of Lausanne.
The British foreign secretary de-
clared with vigor that it was not pos
stble for the Turkish delegation or
the Angora government to claim that
they were being confronted with a
surprise or menace. The allies had
endeavored to frame the treaty not
by methods of dictation. but by con-
Citation and compromise.
Essential Peace Conditions.
However. the allies had reached the
unanimous conclusion that good re-
suits could not be expected from fur
Eher meetings of the conference COM
missions and subcommissions: ac-
cordingly they had drawn up in the
form of A definite treaty the essential
conditions for peace.
I'VE are convinced that a eeneral
honorable peace can be concluded !"
he said. This is the treaty we sub
nit today"
The treaty was the combined offer
not or a single power or group of
powers, but of all the powers. who
were primarily interested whether in
the re-establishment of peace or the
recovery Of the welfare OF the Turkish
people. li
Moreover, the treayt was an anna.I
not to the Angora government, alone
nut TO the public opinion of the world
and that opinion" he added, I've
fearlessly challenge"
Lord Curzon said he wan+od .ho
world to pronounce whether the set
tiement he added I'VE fearIessIv
challenge.
Lord Curzon said he wanted rho
world to pronounce whether tho sat
Element offered Turkey was inst aa
generous and whether it afforded On
portunlty for Turkey to reconstitnto
ier ! ire without external interyen-
non or internal servitude-
compared with the treaty of Sayro.
the present document was generoSit,
user, nc said. and il was madness TO-
anybody to think there was any do.
sire to have the conference end in 4.
'up'ui "Hlcn might mean the re-
sumption of war. Nothing could he
gained by the recommencement ~
hostilities VI
ANY fool can make war" he added
1t is the business of statesmen to
end it,"
New Allied Difficulty.
The French delegations announce
ment that it could not consent to
leaving Lausanne so long as there
were prospects of agreement with
Turkey led to complications among
the allies which brought the near east
conference this morning to the brink
of greater impasse than had been
anticipated for treaty day."
The French delegation, which was
understood to have the support of the
Italian delegation. was further con-
firmed by message to NJ. Bompard
from Paris, declaring that France was
willing to make further concessions
to the Turks, and that she did not
consider the allied treaty as deflni-
tive.
The British received the French an
nouncement as fragrant violation of
the mutual understanding arrived at
by the allied plenipotentiaries only a
few days ago." This agreement pro-
vided that If Turkey did not sign the
treaty upon its presentation today. the
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