Evening star., 1923-07-22
TURK VICTORY OVER
ALLIES is COMPLETE
European Powers Defeated at Lausanne
OH All Ma jor Points, But Near
East War Is Avoided.

I from the eastward. Mustapha Kemal
who secretly had been preparing with
the assistance of the Russians, struck
forth and dealt the Greeks a mighty
blow. The Greeks began precipitate
flight toward coastal points. They
were routed. Ignominiously defeated.
i, Turkey was atiame with patriotic
endeavor. At last the shackles placed
upon the Turks by outside powers
through the decades were to be re-
moved.
With the Greeks eventually forced
out of Turkey, Mustapha Kemal
threatened the occupation by Euro
pean troops of those points in Tur-
key, notably Constantinople, over
which, through the treaty of Sevres.
the allies had control. The French
attempted to save their interests
through private agreement with the
Turks. The British charge that the
French bartered knowingly against
the British interest when the allies
should have stood firmly together
The British decided to carry forward
the allied standard against the Turks
at Chanak and Constantinople. in
spite of desertion of their cause by
the French. and subsequently forced
a halt in Turkish plans of driving the
allies into the sea. When the hour
was most threatening. the armistice
OF Mudana was arranged and the
whole series of difficulties. including
lit peace Det"een the iFetkS ana the
Turks, was thrown into the Lausanne
conference hopper.
At Lausanne for eight months the
statesmen of the old world have
bickered. have .jockeyed bTck and
forth and generally have sought to
preserve national interests in the face
of the Turks, determined to stand for
every principle enunciated in the
Nationalist constitution of Angora. :.
stand Firm I'm Crisis.
When it appeared that the allies had
won their point in the deliberations.
Ismet Pasha. chief of the Turkish de-
llberators. would get a message from
Angora To stand firm. And stand firm
he did.
The world has Witnessed capitulation
by the allies. In no single instance
have the allies won in the negotiations
at Lausanne save proha bly, the holding
or the Turks TO the line OF the MARTHA
river in Thrace.
The capitulations. those provisions
/ by which the Turks would have to
| recognize the allies pre-war and after
war concessions and jurisdictional
rights in Turkey. are left to com
! promise, the treaty Of Lausanne maxi
ing no definite recognition OF the right
ness OF allied claims In the matter
or the straits. to the complete indie
pendence of which the allies were COM
II itted, they again stand defeated. The
| straits are to remain open. but they
VIII not be under the direct control Of
the allies. but the Turks the allies
however. being permitted to maintain
one war vessel apiece along this i'm
poTtant stIategical point.
Ierrltorially and financially. the
Turks stand supreme. Though the
MeSnpotamian grants under the treaty
or SevreS and in regard to Palestine
are ar recognized, the main hinterland of
turkey IS preserved almost in its en-
tlrety. Furthermore. the vaunted AL
lied ambition. as expressed in the paris
peace conference, to kick the Turk com
piete!y out of Europe has dismally
Ialied of realiza ton.
lhrouSh procraStination, through
absolute refusal to negotiate on a1v
other terms than their own, through
the allies own lack of desire to press
wifb MJFo'laf caneasuet f,oms to breaking point
east. through the ingenuity of
AuStapha Kemal in keeping a united
nation at his back, an army always
Turks have won their right to be
ing. Instead of Turkey stumbling
forward under heavy economic and
financial confessional yokes. Turkey
and independent people and may be
expected to firmly establish herself
in all future international deliber-
ations-provided, of course, Mustanha
single to exploitation of Turkey to
personal advantage. does not obtain
power.
May Attempt Overthrow.
1naSmuCh as there is little love
for Mustapha Kemal in the chancel-
lories Of Europe and inasmuch as he
is the direct cause of the capitula-
tion of the allies on all main points
in negotiations, and. Furthermore. in
view of the problems that yet must
he solved outside Lausanne, it is not
TO be expected that there will not
yet he initiated some movement to
null kemaIS power and place in his
stead some one more amenable to the |
European viewpoint.
The thing has been done before in
other quarters and it can be done !
again in the case of Turkey.
With war hazards removed the near
eastern problem will continue a prob !
lem only insofar as various national /
claims in regard to concessions and !
financial settlements are pressed But |
it is believed that the Turks have
escaped their worse fate and that
the question of oil and other matters
perience is TO guide in the inter-
ests of the Turks themselves.
But many a danger turks on the
unsettled eastern frontiers of Turkey.
in Mesoptamia and the inundated