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Last Week, the Turk deported His All Holiness Constantinos VI, Ecumenical Patriarch of the Greek Orthodox Church, because he was not a Turkish citizen. The Treaty of Lausanne (TIME, Aug. 6, 1923), which ended the Greek War and the War between Turkey and the Allies, stipulated that Turkey should in no way interfere with the Patriarchate. To this the Turk now replies : "I have not interfered with the Patriarchate but with the Patriarch...
...that as it may, the Turkish Assistant Director of Police in Constantinople received a cipher message from the Grand National Assembly at An gora, new capital of Turkey, instructing him to deport the Patriarch. At the early hour of 6:30 a.m., the police official called upon His All Holiness, apprised him of his imminent de parture, courteously saw him through passport technicalities and safely upon an ordinary train which forthwith chugged him to Salonika...
...stiff note to Turkey, charging that country with a flagrant breach of engagements entered into under treaties affecting Grece. It was further alleged by the Greek Government that the Mixed Commission, which is overseeing the transfer of Greek and Turk to their respective lands, have decided that the Patriarch was unexchangeable*. Acting President Paul Koundouriotis canceled a diplomatic reception. As a sign of grief, Parliament was adjourned. Conscripts of the 1923 class, whose disbandment was ordered, were commanded to stay with the colors. War murmurs were...
...Turks' hostility toward the Christians, which has manifested itself in many acts of indescribale brutality, has led them to expel Patriarch Constantinos from...
...Just as 100 years ago, they hanged Patriarch Gregorius V., so today, before the eyes of the civilized world and in defiance of international treaties, they have expelled Constantinos VI, with the object of abolishing the Patriarchate, which for centuries has been the centre of Christianity and civilization through which Europe was regenerated...