Word: angoras
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...papers. The opiate, the unsigned Treaty of Sevres which was intended to mark the end of the Turk in Europe,--has been treated most irregularly by Mustapha Kemal Pasha, who from all indications is doing his best to re-carve the boundaries of the Near East to suit his Angora. In the meantime the strong-arm squad,--the Greeks under a recently recrowned and still more recently un-crowned Constantine,--undertook to enforce the provisions of the treaty, feeling the inheritance of Alexander lay within their reach, as legitimate recompense for their efforts in the cause of peace. Severely repulsed...
...will return to power. The plaster-of-Paris Sultan at Constantinople is reported on the verge of abdication. But the grave question is whether a reorganized Greece can hold off the Turkish re-entry into Thrace if the Allies stand by their intention to hand it over to the Angora government...
...Forum which is addressed by-weekly by prominent business men from the city. The Political Science Forum is a similar organization which discusses political questions. One of the most interesting talks before this club was made by an American who had just come from an investigation of conditions at Angora, the headquarters of the Kemalist Turks...
...belief outside of parties and politicians, if the "New York Times" is correct in saying that "Poincare does not love conferences. Before he accepted office and ever since he has been repeating the statement, and so it is probable that if any agreement (with regard to the problem of Angora) is ever come to, it will have to be come to slowly and correctly through the usual diplomatic channels...
...deprive Greece of Smyrna, Thrace, and her other Asia Minor possessions. In resentment of this decree, Greece has launched against Turkey an offensive which has two objectives. In the first place, she is pushing toward the junction of the Bagdad Railroad and a branch line that leads to Angora. The second offensive is against Aflun-Kara Hissar, another railroad terminal. Here the operations are most important, because, if successful, the Greeks will cut off the Turks from Cilicia in their attempt to join their main army. Some 120,000 men are at present on the Smyrna and Brusa front...