Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1924-04-08
GERARD DECLARES
RIGHTS WERE SOLD
To TURKEY FOR OIL!
Early Failure Of Ottoman
KenoaIist Republic Fore
cast u, S, Urged to Re-
pudiate Lausanne Treaty

NEW YORK, April 6.--Cafiing
upon the senate to reject the Eau.
Same treaty, James w. Gerard, for
mer ambassador to Germany, ~
clared before the foreign policy as.
ISOLATION Saturday that the state de-
partment had sold the cause OF
Armenia and American rights in
Turkey for the Chester oil conces.
sion.
Il will put to Secretary Hughes
two pertinent questions Mr.. Ger
arr said.
''Why did he take so active and
vigorous a part i'll behalf Of the
Chester oil concession, even at the
risk of forcing resumption Of hos
tilities, and why does he now deny
that he has had anything to do
with it?
"Why did he request General
Goethals to accept the presidency OF
| the Chester company and in what
capacity did he direct the reorgani.
cation of that company?
Inglorious Retreat Charged
Secretary Hughes made hur.
ried and inglorious retreat from the
position which he took in December,
1922 He accepted the Turkish views
on the capitulations and upon the
Armenian case. In other words, in
consideration of the Chester conces
sion, he surrendered to the Turks
the rights which he claimed for
American nationals and for Arnae-
MIA before the granting OF that con-
cassion.
| Obviously he went to Lausanne
fully prepared to make any and all
sacrifice to cinch this oil concession,
and he betrayed Christian Armenia
and his own country to attain his
purpose"
Referring to the kemalist govern
ment, Mr.. Gerard said:
THE kemalist regime is on it's
last legs. fractional armed conflict,
widespr cad banditrg and hopeless
economic chaos seriously threaten
| kemal's regime. The establishment
Of a republic and abolition Of the
| Caliphate in country of itiiterate,
primitive and fanatical peasants are
eloquent proofs of the instability of
| kemal's government. kemal is not
| removing, as is alleged by some SUI
pecfcial observers, hindrances from
! the path of progress, but he is, in
reality, resorting to desperate meas
ures to get rid of his opponents"
Kemal Downfall Forecast
America stands to gain nothing by
/ resuming relations with Turkey in
this state, Mr.. Gerard asserted. "The
downfall Of Kemal Is inevitable and
| imminent. BY now surrendering our
rights to him we shall find it difficult
/ to feassert them against any regime
which may overthrow and succeed
him. We can well afford to wait"
! Professor Albert Bushnell Hart.
of Harvard, in a letter sent to the
meeting, said the fundamental
I trouble with the Lausanne treaty
was that 1t assumed that 1.-The So
| called republic OF Turkey is mod
! ern civilized nation.
! "There is no assurance that the
! Turks who authorized the signature
! of the treaty will carry out any pro- I
visions that hereafter may seem in
convenient" Mr.. Harris letter con-
| tinued. "rhe Turks have been mak*
| ing the same kind Of promises OF
! good behavior and protection to tins
| foreigner and recognition of the
| rights of minorities for more than a
| hundred years, and they have never
observed one Of those pledges"
Albert w. Staub, American dlrec,
tor of the Near East colleges, favored
thc ratification of the treaty ana
maintained that the Turks had mace
sufficient progress during recent
wears to Justify the confidence Oh INC
United States.
REAR ADMIRAL BRISTOL
TO CONFER WITH JSMET PASHA
CONSTANTINOPLE, April B.
Bv the Associated Press.)-Rear 40
miral Mark j.. Bristol, American
high commissioner at Constantlnople'
has gone TO Angora to confer Wlth
Ismet Pasha, the Turkish foreign
minister. regarding the future OF
American educational and religious
institutions in Turkey.
In consequence Of a strong protest
bv the state department against the
closing Of such institutions, al
Young Mems Christian associations
in Turkey have been authorized to
reopen.