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...entrance of the German Embassy the carriage stopped. Out stepped the Director of the Protocol and disappeared into the Embassy...
...Chinese Government once again protested against paying the Boxer indemnity in gold to France (TIME, Nov. 19). In an answer to a note from the eight Powers which were parties to the Protocol of 1901 regulating payments of the Boxer indemnity, the Chinese Government declined to accept the interpretation of the words "gold debt" as meaning that payment must be made in gold. Accordingly the Government insisted that France must accept payment in French currency without compensation for the low rate of exchange...
...loggerheads with the Chinese Government over the latter's inability to make gold payments in accordance with the Boxer* indemnity. This state of affairs has caused the keenest concern to the other Powers interested in China, as they would have to join France in order to safeguard their protocol rights, or risk losing these rights by adhering to the Chinese Policies Treaty, one of the Washington treaties as yet unratified by France...
...simply illegal. Mr. Grew icily referred the British representative to the three years' correspondence between the British and American Governments upon the subject. M. Otchiai, Japanese Ambassador to Italy and delegate at Lausanne, came unexpectedly to America's support, announcing that Japan would not sign the Concessions Protocol because it violated the Open Door (so dear to the Japanese in Korea). Ismet, much surprised, said that Turkey would decide her own economic policy without outside interference. But none the less the British claims tumbled out of the Treaty, to be argued directly between London and Washington...
Ismet's diplomacy was utterly successful. The warm and nervous delegates reached an agreement on concessions and the naval problem in a manner satisfactory to the Turks. The Turkish Petroleum Company's claims were dropped from the Protocol, and preferential rights cancelled for the Vickers-Armstrong and French Railway companies. Until ratification of the straight convention, Britain, France and Italy may each keep a cruiser and two destroyers on the Bosphorus; in any event this privilege must end next December...