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Turks know their President, thirdly, as a tough, able statesman who once outmaneuvered Lord Curzon at Lausanne in 1923 and who (they hope) may yet out-maneuver Adolf Hitler. Joseph Stalin is reported to have said: "The only man outside Russia whose advice I respect is Inönü." With the arrival of Franz von Papen this week Inönü comes up against the toughest assignment of his career...
When the conference opened, Britain's Foreign Secretary, towering Lord Curzon. tried by browbeating and flattery to persuade Inönü to accept something less than full sovereign rights for his country. The issue was foreign judicial rights in Turkey, which had existed since the Sultanate...
Ismet would wait until Curzon had exhausted himself in an eloquent tirade, then apologize for his deafness and ask Lord Curzon to repeat the argument...
...line was named after brilliant old Lord Curzon, onetime famed Viceroy of India, in 1919 serving his first year as Britain's Foreign Secretary. He recommended it to the Versailles Peace Conference. In the turmoil into which Eastern Europe was soon to be plunged, however, the Curzon line raveled. Poland invaded the Ukraine and occupied Kiev. After defeating their other foes the Bolsheviks finally counterattacked, pushed the Poles back almost to Warsaw. Polish emissaries at London screamed for help, but Prime Minister David Lloyd George, never before or since too fond of the Poles, reminded them that they were...
Extenuating Circumstances. Harking back to Lord Curzon, British Foreign Secretary Viscount Halifax, in a House of Lords debate, practically made an official declaration that Russia is welcome to that part of Poland now under the hammer-&-sickle...