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...Turkish Position. Foreign Minister Tewfic Bey sent an official protest to the Council, alleging that England had armed the Chaldeans against the Turks and that no Turkish atrocities had been committed. Unofficially the Turks at Geneva inquired, "How much did Laidoner get paid for his report?" Previously the Turkish representative before the Council, Munir Bey, had delivered an interminable harangue in which he raked up endless legal quibbles. He alleged that the Council had no right to dispose of Mosul, under the Treaty of Lausanne, except by a unanimous decision in which Turkey's vote must be counted...
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...
Last week in Constantinople, energetic Prefect Emin Bey of the police force issued to his henchmen stout planks bristling with nails. "Throw these," said he, "before speeding motor cars. If they cannot stop, their tires will be sorely, multitudinously punctured." A scientifically infallible method of testing brakes! The Prefect's regulations included instructions to chauffeurs and coachmen not "to joke among themselves in unseemly manner or indulge in obscene remarks...
Developments were ominous but of doubtful significance: 1) Tewfic Bey, Turkish Foreign Minister, and head of the Turkish League Delegation, left Geneva suddenly by the Orient Express for Angora, after declaring that dealings between his Government and Britain in the near future will be through the regular diplomatic channels. 2) From Angora, Mustafa Kemal Pasha, President-Dictator of Turkey, was quoted as follows: "Our army is ready and its morale is excellent. If we should have to fight-which I don't think likely-we shall certainly not shirk the issue. . . . Mosul is Turkish . . . nothing can change that...
...bustling clerks at the Secretariat that the Liberian minister at Paris had addressed a note to the League conveying his nation's adherence to the recent Arms Control convention and strongly emphasizing that Liberia was a sovereign and independent republic. It was noted that Angora had designated Rushdi Bey, Turkish Foreign Minister to attend the Councils meeting and do battle for Turkeys side of the Mosul question. It was even noted that William Slocum ot Boston, resident in Geneva, had denied that he was on hand as a personal representative of U. S. Secretary of State Kellogg to attend...