Word: thrace
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...background by issues which have more closely affected the Allies. The facts which led up to this, the second instalment of the Lausanne Conference, are as follows: In accordance with the terms of the Treaty of Sevres Greece received a large stretch of Asia Minor and most of Thrace. The terms of peace between Turkey and the Allies were also fixed. The Turks refused to sign the Treaty and attacked...
Another protest requiring intervention is made by Bulgaria, who charges the Greeks with persecuting the Bulgarian population in Thrace. The Bulgars also ask for the removal of Allied military control commissions from their country, declaring that they are superfluous...
History. The forerunning events leading up to the present situation are that Turkey refused to sign the Treaty of Sevres establishing the terms of peace that the Allied Powers were willing to grant her. In this Treaty Greece was given practically the whole of western Thrace and a large stretch of land in Asia Minor. On August 28 last year the Turks started their attack on the Greeks, and on September 9 Turkish troops entered Smyrna after the Greek army had left. France, Italy, and Britain on September 29 issued a note to Turkey inviting her to participate...
...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...
Mustapha is a good name for Kemal and his Turkish associates. They "mustapha" this and they must have a that, and lately they have been pretty consistently getting it. France and Italy, with the reluctant agreement of England, have given back to them Thrace and about everything they lost in the Great War except complete freedom in ruling the Hellespont and the Dardanelles...