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...Lord Curzon's speech in London a little more than a week ago advising Germany to make an offer to the French and Belgians has evidently had some effect in Germany. Chancellor Cuno announced that he is about to take an important step in connection with the reparations problem...
...almost certain that the Curzon speech was a British diplomatic feeler intended to bring about an end to the Ruhr impasse, which is a great source of worry to British commercial interests. Strength is lent to this contention by Bonar Law, the British Prime Minister, taking a holiday. His voice was considerably weakened by a recent attack of laryngitis, but he has always taken an active part in cabinet affairs. It is inconceivable that he would leave London unless a plan having his approval as head of the Government had already been decided. The inference is that the Curzon speech...
...outlines of a Franco-Belgian agreement made by Poincaré and Theunis were published, and point to the fact that economic guarantees between France, Belgium and Germany will be the medium through which a cut in the reparations bill will be accepted. In a speech at London, the Marquis Curzon, British Foreign Secretary, advised Germany to make a definite offer to France and Belgium. This was received in most European capitals, as a possible basis for direct negotiations...
...granted to the French and British." It seems that the Turks, adepts at procrastination, have been playing for time until the psychological moment arrived to ratify the Chester Concessions. It arrived; and the Turks will go back to Lausanne stronger than ever. The Turkish move has, however, revealed Lord Curzon and his rôle of injured innocence in a most unfavorable light; for, more than once, he emphatically denied that Great Britain was in Iraq for oil: now it appears that Britain is not wholly disinterested...
...much muddled "general European condition." Oil stains from the quarrel about Turkish concessions, France's obstinacy in regard to the German reparations, the secret connivings between Turkey and the unofficial Russian delegates, the loud shouting by Ismet Pasha for Thrace and the abandonment of the Capitulations, and Lord Curzon's John Bull-headed inflexibility as regards the Bosphorus have all contributed to stirring up the pool at Lausanne until it has become almost impossible to see the bottom...