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Although Lord Curzon had condemned the proposal in the House of Lords, a special interdepartmental committee of the British Government reported on the proposed treaty and a reply was despatched to Washington. The reply evidently raised certain objections, because the State Department answered it in turn. But the text of the correspondence and the treaties was kept secret...
Speeches in the British Parliament by Premier Baldwin and Foreign Secretary Curzon plainly showed that Britain had received a rebuff from France and Belgium on her Ruhr policy, which was contained in her note to the Allies, the chief points of which are: Nothing can be proposed by Britain which contravenes the Treaty of Versailles; Germany's capacity to pay, fixed by an international commission of financial experts (as suggested in U. S. Secretary of State Hughes' New Haven speech), would be liable to revision at the hands of the Reparations Commission; Germany must agree to some form...
...much the strength of the Turks as the weakness of the Allies that influenced the course of events. The United States did send two observers, but observers do not influence the Turks. It takes force or a show of force to do so. ... Lord Curzon had to assent to Ismet's statement that the Armenian question was ended by the destruction of the Armenians, and the greatest crime of history was condoned. . . . But as long as the United States persists in its course of isolation ... it ill becomes us to criticize the other Powers. . . . Why had our help...
...first session of the Lausanne Conference met at Lausanne, Switzerland, on November 20, 1922. The Allies were obliged to alter their tone to the Turks, because Turkey appeared before them as a conqueror. The Allies, led by the domineering Lord Curzon, British plenipotentiary to the Conference, merely dropped the form of their claims but "held rigidly to the substance. Turkey was told to go home and sign the treaty. She was warned not to break the peace, and with this final admonition the Allied delegates entered their wagon-lits and steamed...
...Prince officially welcomed the delegates and extended congratulations to Dr. Keen, the recent President of the Society, " who, despite the 86 years he carries so lightly, and the weight of his world-wide reputation, is again among us to participate in every meeting of this distinguished gathering." Lord Curzon was gratified that the Congress had chosen to meet in England for the first time. Professor Giordano, of Vienna, was elected President for the next triennial meeting, at Rome, in 1926. Neville Chamberlain, British Minister of Health, announced that in 20 years the British deathrate has been reduced from...