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Mohammed VI. At San Remo, Italy, the deposed Sultan Mohammed VI kept in close touch with the doings of the Cairo conference. When he ascended the Turkish throne (1918) his subjects numbered 12 millions. His realm embraced both Turkey in Europe and Turkey in Asia - nearly half a million square miles, including Anatolia, Arabia, Palestine, Mesopotamia and Kurdistan. The Turkish Republic now holds in Europe only the zone of Constantinople, and in Asia little more than Anatolia and Kurdistan...
...deposed Sultan pondered these matters at San Remo last week, a long-standing illness of the heart stole upon him and he died...
...control of these regions there has long been considerable confused rivalry among European interests, rivalry which was seemingly set at rest by the San Remo treaty of 1920. This left the U. S. out of consideration and was so vigorously protested that the British, French and Dutch interests eventually permitted the U. S. a quarter share of the work and rewards. But one Calouste Sarkis Gulbenkian, Armenian banker, millionaire and onetime business agent of defunct Sultan Abdul Hamid, held a neat 5% of the Turkish Petroleum Co., under whose 75-year exploitation concession the internationals intended to operate...
Last week, however, despatches from San Remo, famed Riviera resort, described Mohammed VI, once both Sultan and Caliph, as no longer able to command the state and retinue which he has maintained until very recently. Gifts and contributions from wealthy Turkish sympathizers still enable him to keep up a modest villa, but it is alleged that a few weeks ago he was nearly evicted for nonpayment of rent, and it is said that he has been obliged to dispense with even the German governess who formerly attended his youngest...
...great many, I fear, the pilgrimage will resolve itself into a de luxe sightseeing tour of Europe. To many it will be an opportunity of visiting the Europe which, to them, is bounded by the boulevards of Paris, Monte Carlo and its gambling hells, Deauville and San Remo; and if they can see a one-piece bathing suit, they will have achieved the summit of European travel. . . . Every mail brings me seductive circulars...