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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...
...dictated by the jealousies and selfishness of the Allied Powers themselves. There lies the hope of the Christians of the east, and indeed of all others, for salvation and peace; Let the Turks be free in all the territories in which they are a majority; Let Armenia, Ionia and Thrace be emancipated from the bonds of slavery to the Turks; Put an end to the sufferings of the Christian and other minorities of the Near East; Avert the dangers of a new Balkan war and consequent danger of a new world conflagration; Let the way to Constantinople and through...