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...actual ceremony of signing was excessively simple. Ismet Pasha, chief Turkish delegate, was the first to sign for his country. After the remaining six plenipotentiaries had signed, Herr Karl Scheurer, President of the Swiss Confederation, made the following address...
While the Allies were perfecting their paper plans a new leader made himself evident in Turkey in Mustapha Kemal Pasha, leader of the Turk Nationalists. In the War between Greece and the Nationalist Army Mustapha Kemal showed himself to be an astute and capable soldier. The tide of this War was at first against the Turks, and the Allies were pleased. Early in 1922, however, it became clear that the Turks were winning, and when on Sept. 9, 1922, the Greek Army had been chased ignominiously from Anatolia, the Allied house of cards collapsed...
...Ismet Pasha and Joseph G. Grew, U. S. Observer, settled the Turko-American Agreement. The U. S. A. receives all the privileges of the Straits Convention (regulation of shipping on the Bosphorus) without signing it. Mutually satisfactory set-were made of the questions of taxation on U. S. companies, protection of Christian minorities, damages to Americans during...
...bombshell was exploded under the placid forms of Sir Horace Rumbold and General Pelle, British and French representatives at Lausanne, when Ismet Pasha announced that concessions prior to 1914, which he had consented to confirm in the Concessions Protocol, invaded the Chester concessions, and that his agreement must be reconsidered...
...Lausanne Conference took a temporary lease of life when Ismet Pasha, head of the Turkish Delegation, and Eleutherios Venezelos, head of the Greek Delegation, had a verbal tiff. The trouble was over a discussion of a commercial convention. It had been agreed that the convention between Turkey and the Great Powers should last for five years, and only two years for Rumania, Yugo-Slavia and Greece. Ismet Pasha suddenly announced that, as Turkey did not do much business with Rumania and Yugoslavia, he would be willing to let the period stand at two years, but in view of the fact...