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...conclusion of the Lausanne Conference last month the Allies handed Ismet Pasha, Turkish Emissary, a treaty which contained their final peace terms. Ismet could not agree to sign it, and so it has been taken to Angora for the approval or rejection of the National Assembly. If the Turks refuse to sign war will follow...
Mustapha Kemal Pasha comes into the limelight under a new guise. Speaking before the Teachers' Association at Brusa (across the Bosphorus from Constantinople), he exhorted women to educate themselves and to take an active part in the nation's affairs...
...from her debts is the first sign of a clearing in the 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...
...humor is one faculty not generally included in the list of amiable qualities that form the make-up of the Turk, but for once he has played his reputation false. The Nationalist leader, Mustafa Kemal has as his representative at the present conference at Lausanne, the general Ishmet Pasha. Now Ishmet's great usefulness lies not so much in the distinction of his services,--though they have been many and great, Allah is witness! for he is a trained diplomat and his recent victories over the Greeks in a military way are credited to strategy of the highest order...
This in brief is the situation which causes War and rumors of more War to fill the daily papers. The opiate, the unsigned Treaty of Sevres which was intended to mark the end of the Turk in Europe,--has been treated most irregularly by Mustapha Kemal Pasha, who from all indications is doing his best to re-carve the boundaries of the Near East to suit his Angora. In the meantime the strong-arm squad,--the Greeks under a recently recrowned and still more recently un-crowned Constantine,--undertook to enforce the provisions of the treaty, feeling the inheritance...