Evening star., 1925-03-14
TURKEY ADAMANT
! IN GREEK DISPUTE
Refuses to Discuss Expul-
sion of Patriarch Before
Council of League.
Nv the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
GENEVA, March 14,-When the
League of Nations council took up
the dispute between Greece and
Turkey today over the expulsion OF
the Most Rev. Constantinos. Patrl-
arch of the Greek Orthodox Church
from Constantinople, Sir Eric Drum
mond. secretary general of the league
announced that Turkey persisted IN
her refusal to discuss the question
before the council.
i, This, he explained. was because
the Angora government deemed II
a purely internal question and there
fore not subject TO international ad-
5hdication.
~ Notwithstanding the absence of
Turkish representatives, NJ. Caclama-
nos, Greek minister to Great Britain.
presented the Greek aspect of the
conflict to the council. arguing that
the deportation of the Patriarch was
an international question and one
with which the council was competent
10 deal
Viscount Ishii of Japan, presenting
a premilinary review of the sltua-
tion. explained the Turkish conten-
ton that the exchange of the Paui-
arch for a Turkish resident of Greece
lay exclusively within the jurisdic-
tion of the mixed commission for the
exchange of Greek and Turkish Popu-
lations and that consideration OF the
controversy by the council would be
tantamount TO Turkey agreeing to
Greek interference in Turkish domes-
tic affairs. either directly or by TAX
ing advantage of League of Nations
authority.
Turkey Argues Issue
Turkey, moreover, argued that 1t
would countenanCe overruling or
decision of the mixed commission
established by the Lausanne conven-
ton Viscount Ishii said the real,
Immediate question was whether the
council should abstain from examin-
ing the dispute because one of the
parties had repudiated the councffs
competency.
Taking up the Sarre basin question.
the council passed a resolution ap-
proving the Sarre governments pro-
gram for an increase in the gen.
darmerie by $50 electives and ask
ing how it was intended to comply
with the treaty of Versailles regard
ing the maintenance of order without
the continued presence of French
troops, the council suggested that
troops always could be summoned
from outside. The resolution will be
communicated to the German govern
ment.
The Athenfans have induced former
Premier Venizelos of Greece to de-
fend before the council of the league
the Greek governments interest in
the dispute concerning the protection
of the Bulgarian minorities residing
in Greece.
Venzelos took issue with the report
on the subject submitted to the council
by Austen Chamberlain, the British for
eign secretary. which rebuked Greece
for falling TO ratify a protocol its rep
resenta atives had made with the council
The Greek statesman insisted his coun-
trys attitude was justified on broad
grounds. Incidentally, he remarked: "A
greater protocol than this has just been
buried-I trust not forever, for If hu-
manity will only follow its principles it
will find means of preventing war"
The dispute subsequently was settled
amicably by Greece consenting to an
swer a series of questions designed to
make clear whether Greece actually
was living up to her obligations toward
the minority population.
Greece Explains Stand.
The dispute was really one between
tITpec6S
fusal to ratfy the protocol made with
the council was on the ground that it's
provisions were at variance with the
general terms of the general minority
treaties and violated the established
principle that does not permit interfer-
ence with internal affairs of the state.
Mr. Chamberlains report, strongly
rebuking Greece for her attitude, set
forth that all minority treaties in
Volved certain restraint of state,
sovereignty and that the acceptance
OF obligations imposed constituted a
free and helpful contribution to the
policy of international cooperation
"a contribution no less free and no
more derogatory than any great
nower has made to such problems as
disarmament or arbitration.
NJ Fenizelos declared that former
Foreign Minister Bolitis of Greece,
great jurist as he is" had COM
mitted a political error in signing
the protocol, and that the Greek
parliament had done the league a
good service in rejecting it, because
1t contained stipulations, including
special right of appeal granted to
Bulgarians, which Greece never
could fulfill without fomentfng
jealousy and anger among the
Greek population. He insisted the
general minority treaties affecting
Greece were sufficient to protect the
educational and religious rights of
the Bulgarians, and he pledged the
Hellenic government Loyalty to
execute them.