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Meanwhile at Angora, the Turkish capital, Sir Ronald Lindsay continued to negotiate the dicker with Turkey, on the basis of which the Anglo-Irak treaty may or may not go into effect without blood-spilling in Mosul. Sir Austen declared last week that this exalted chaffering and higgling are still going forward in "friendly" fashion...
...first time in Mohammedan history, Church and State have been separated. The Angora Government, having deposed the Sultan-Calif, appointed a Calif without temporal power, then proceeded to depose the Calif it had made; so there is no Primate of Islam today...
Nevertheless, he has resurrected "the sick man of Europe", doomed to an early death by the World War, revived him on tonic of blood and iron at Smyrna and established him convincingly at Angora. Once more that redoubtable invalid plays the classic Ottoman game of fast-and-loose with Russia and Britain. He signs the Lausanne pact, and as readily a treaty of amity with Russia. He drives the unbeliever into Greece. He toys with the wily Briton at Chanak, Mosul, and in Irak. He has the very temerity to throw a wrench into the World Court, a deed pardonable...
...These Christians are Chaldeans who have lived in this region for centuries as serfs of Kurdish chiefs, who last spring refused to carry out orders from Angora to massacre them. . . . They are a home-loving people, never rebelled, and were the backbone of Kurdish wealth. . . . All idea of voluntary emigration on their part must be excluded. The mere fact that they arrived at Irak and are still arriving daily in the utmost physical distress and completely without resources proves beyond doubt or dispute that they were compelled to abandon their villages by force and violence...
When Signer Scialoja, Acting President of the Council, informed Munir Bey that "unanimous" was to be understood as "unanimous except for the votes of either Britain or Turkey, the interested par-ties," the Turks walked out, declaring that they had no authority from Angora to accept such a vote. This action amounted to flouting the League of Nations and the World Court, the latter having ruled that under the Treaty of Lausanne the Council was competent to adjudicate the dispute (TIME...