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...Succor of Greek Refugees, an ex-U. S. Ambassador to Turkey, likewise congratulated M. Venizelos. Speaking at a dinner in Athens, Mr. Morgenthau recalled his efforts to deter the Turks from "massacring Christians;" he deplored the fact that Turkey had been put in the position to win the Anatolian War (1921-22) by the transfer of French and Italian arms; he recounted his efforts in Britain at the time of the sack of Smyrna (1922) "to arouse public opinion to go after the Turk;" he concluded his speech with: "We are now witnessing a great struggle between justice and force...
After eleven years, 1912-1923 (Balkan Wars, World War, Anatolian War), of almost continuous mobilization, though not fighting, the Greek Army, last week disbanded. One hundred fifty thousand men are returning to civil life. M. Romanos, Greek Minister to Paris, estimates that the cost of this operation, which will increase the productive capacity of Greece, will amount to only 5,000,000 drachmas...
...forbidding further recruiting, for the army until its standard strength is reduced to 175,000 men, President Wilson has but followed the course mapped out by himself in the halcyon days of the Versailles conference. He is apparently unable or unwilling to see that his plans for Armenian and Anatolian mandates have been rejected by the great majority of American voters. He still lives in the remembrance of his European travels, and would force upon the country the military requirements of his reconstruction promises so freely distributed at Paris...