The Omaha morning bee. [volume] (Omaha [Neb.]) 1922-1927, 1923-01-07
War Issue
Up Before
Conference
Turkish Delegate Says Key to
Peace Lies in Hands
of Near East
Farley.
Curzon Answers Attack

Lausanne, Jan. 6.-Bv A. P.A
Peace or war was the grave issue
placed squarely before the near east.
ern conference today. Ismet Pasha
for Turkey brought this issue con.
cisely before the delegates, when,
after. refusing all allied suggestions
concerning special courts for foreign
ers In Turkey he declared soiemnly:
Gentlemen, the key to peace lies
In your hands"
Lord Curzon accepting the chal.
lenge, retorted "ls peace Is to come to
Lausanne. 1t Is essential that some
arrangement on the question OF for
eign tribunals be arrived at" and hs
added significantly: I'VE hope that
time will soften the Turkish attituds
and that Turkey will not maintain
her position of today
The discussion took place before the
full commission on capitulations which
adjourned without reaching any ac-
cord on ",he most vital question on
the Lausanne agenda and without
fixing date for the next meeting.
The debate on capitulations. during
which ismet Pasha praised the Amer.
lean ambassador, Mr.. Child, for his
recent eloquent address," to the con.
ference on the question of the foreign
judicial system, was dignified through.
out and marked by no evidence OF i'll.
greatly from the morning session,
which took up the problem of provid.
ing a national home for the Armen.
ians.
Leaves Meeting Hall.
Angry at the allies attempt even to
bring the Armenian question into the
official discussion. Ria Nur Bey, the
second Turkish delegate. delivered
short but violent attack on the al
lies, then brusquely marched out OF
the meeting hall.
In consequence of this, Lord Cur
zon. NJ. Barriere and Marquis di Gar
roni forwarded strong letter of pro-
test to Ismet Pasha, requesting the
head of tho Turkish delegation TO
write some explanation of his col
leagues conduct. Ria Nur Bey, who
usually says the caustic things for
the Turks when the Turks believe
they must be said, was not daunted hy
the allied protest, but appeared smil
ing and gracious at the afternoon
meeting when the fateful problem OF
capltulations was discussed
Producing Bad Impression
The unfortunate incident of the
morning, which followed the allies
request that Turkey give her atten-
tion, from the humanitarian point Of
view, TO the question of providing
n national home for the Armenfans,
produced a bad impression. Ismet
Pasha s dignified rejection OF the al.
lies proposals on capitulations only
served to aggravate this impression.
Ria Nur refused to listen to the
suggestions regarding Armenia and
accused the allies of intriguing with
the Armenians and Assyro. Chaldeans
during the great war.
That Is why the allies felt morally
bound to do something for them.
According TO the Turkish account
of the incident which produced a SEN
sation in conference circles, Chairman
Mantagna of the subcommission on
minorities read a statement favoring
the Armenian home. and was followed
by Sir Horace Rumbold of England.
who spoke in advocacy of establishing
the home in Cilicia. Sir Horace also
wanted the Turks to give an inde-
pendent district to the Assyro -Chal-
deans, in the region south of Lake
Van and west of Lake Urmia.
Bound to Help Them.
Ria Nur Bey, the Turkish spokes-
man, declared he understood the al
lied interest in the Armenians and
others was because the allies had in
cited them to revolt, and therefore
felt morally bound to help them.
Ria Nur said he must consider to-
days allied declarations as not hay-
ing been made and that It was his
duty to leave the meeting. He walked
out amid the murmurs of the other
delegates.
Conference circles were seething
with excitement after the incident, and
wondering whether it forecast further
affairs of the sort calculated to dis
turb, If not disrupt, the entire confer
enee. 1t was pointed to as, in any
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