Word: asia
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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According to the latest modifications of the Near Eastern settlement, the Allied Governments have decided to 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...
...nation which has suffered from Asiatic oppression for over 3000 years. Because the Turks desired the Treaty of serves dissolved and because the Greeks repudiated their former leader, Venizelos, the Allied Council seems to have taken advantage of Greece's position by encouraging the rise of Turkish power in Asia Minor. Such an event points to further subjection of the Greeks; so in defence of their liberties guaranteed by the League of Nations, they have entered into a war single-handed with the vain hope of solving their own problems...
...address, Mr. Morgenthau will take up the disposition of the countries in the Balkans and of Turkey in Asia Minor. He will also describe the situation arising from Turkey's misgovernment and cruelty in the treatment of her subject peoples...
...testified, "were sent via Yap under normal conditions; and during interruptions of our cable between Guam and Manila, which cut off all communication with the Philippines and China by our route, we diverted traffic via Yap to Shanghai over the German-Dutch system." American commercial expansion demands communications with Asia that will not be under the control of a competing power. The United States disputes the award of Yap to Japan because the mandate would give that country exclusive control over a strategic center of communication...
...longing eyes at the recent acquisitions of Greece. France--the traditional friend of the Turk--misses the privileges granted to her financiers by the old Turkish government, and is jealous of British influence in the Near East, particularly at Constantinople. The recovery of Turkish territory lost in Thrace and Asia Minor is the aim of both the Sultan's government on the Bosphorus and the Nationalists of Angora, who are capable of initiating no little trouble in the regions under Allied mandate. The pressure toward readjustment is strong: the future career of the French premier may depend much upon...