Evening star., 1923-07-22
NEAR EAST TREATY
BL0TCH TO ALLIES
Great Powers Lose Much of
Prestige and Honor, De-
CIareS Andre Tardieu.
BY ANDRE TARDIEU.
Former French High Commissioners
to the United States.


By Cable to The Star.
PARIS. July 21.-The treaty of
Lausannc-or what Is called the
treaty Of Lausanne--will be signed
next Tuesday. 1t Is hard to call it
real treaty, for the number Of
questions it leaves unsolved is far
greater than the number 1t settles.
Compared with the war aims of
the allies or with the treaty of
Sevres, one might think that be-
tween August, 1920, and August 1928.
there had been a new war between
the allies and Turkey and that Tur-
Fkey had emerged victorious. Yet
there has been no war. There has
been only that play of European pol
itics which, in this field as in all
others, has seemed bent on destroy
ing the fruits of the common victory
by incoherence, contradicting and
selfish mediocrity.
The whole situation resembles a
huge quadrille wherein everybody
has changed places at random with
everybody else so that the ballroom
is filled with jostling confusion.
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promised for the future.
War Time Agreement.
During the war the allies agreed
on two or three simple ideas regard
ing the orient:
i. That Germanized Turkey, by de-
c!aring war in 1914 without rhyme or
reason. lad seriously complicated the
TASK OF the western powers, deter
mined the entry of Bulgaria on Ger
many's side favored a bolshevik erup-
ton, prolonged the conflict and sac
rinced the lives of thousands of allied
soldiers.
2. That the Turks had again shown
clearly how far they were from mod
ern civilization.
3. That an end of the Balkan terri
torial conflicts must be achieved once
and for all by ousting the Turks from
Europe.
These ideas are found in the allied
war aims as stated by former Pre-
mier BRAND OF France to the neutrals s
IN 1916. and again in 1918 in the
fourteen points" of President Wilson,
and hnally in the treaty of Sevres
which faithfully expresses the victors'
reiterated Views about the remains of
the ottoman empire. But you will not
hnd them in the treaty of Lausanne
Game of Politics.
The play of European politics has
Deem the same toward Germany as
toward Turkey. but while the process
still Is going on in Germany's case IL
is finally finished in Turkeys case and
officially sealed in legal document
In 1919 England. stepping cautious
ly, began TO play the game which led
to this elimination. She sought to
gain the favor of the Turks with an
armistice, the weakness of which has
been pointed out. But six months
later, when Italian troops unjustifi-
ably intervened near Smyrna. England
encouraged the Greeks to disembark
in that city and placed her money on
the other horse. finally assuming the
command of Constantinople in the
spring of 1920 and urging the Greeks
to push forward and crush the state
of Angora. built upon the ruins OF the
Ottoman empire.
Six months later France adopted
contrary tactics, and while the Greco
Turkish battle ragged she insured
Mustapha Kennels victory by signing
the Angora agreement in September,
1921. AT that time and later in the
Chanak affair. American opinion
seemed greatly disturbed over the
Turkey policy of France and in
New York crowds in the moving pic
lures applauded the arrival Of Brit
ish cruisers in the Dardanelles.
Hardly year has passed and
Turks, while England takes advan-
taSe OF this break to protect her
commercial interests, and the United
States, once so bitter against the Tur-
kish barbaritieS, is amiably treating
for execution of the Chester oil land
concessions, which substitutes Amer
lean concessionaries for European in
the public works of Anatolia.
Frances Turk Heritage.
Nobody can say all this shows much
farsi ghtednesS or consistency on the
part of the great powers. France
had a great material and moral heri-
tage In Turkey. She had IS per cent
of the Turkish debt, about the same
proportion of European enterprises
in the Levant, and had schools and
hospitals. All that has been sacri-
feed by the treaty of Lausanne.
The British were betting on o.
magnifled Greece whose patron they
would be. Greece has been beaten
and driven from eastern Thrace and a
part of western Thrace. CONSTANT
nople becomes Turkish again, with
all the dangers that long experience
has revealed. while every day the
agreement between the Turks, Rus
SLAMS and Germans gets closer and