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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Venizelos freed the island of Crete, his birthplace, from Turkish dominion and brought it under Greek rule (1890-1909). He organized the Balkan League, which thrust Turkey back from considerable European territory in the Balkan War of 1912. After the World War, Venizelos proved himself easily the greatest diplomat among the representatives of minor powers at the Paris Peace Conference. His "enticing charm"-as one statesman expressed it-won for Greece so much added territory that the Greco-Turkish frontier is now but 20 miles from Constantinople...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREECE: Thucydides Re-Greeked | 3/22/1926 | See Source »

...ready to get and do many other things, when the Balkans broke open. He believed that Gladstone's previous premiership had lowered British prestige. Bismarck had become Europe's autocrat. So when Bismarck seemed to take control of Balkan affairs against Turkey, it touched the Imperial pride and anti-Gladstonianism of Disraeli, who promptly told Bismarck, "No!" Thus, despite Gladstonian moralizing, Disraeli went to Berlin in 1878, dictated a Treaty which left Turkey a little territory and Britain all the glory. Glorious indeed was the day when Bismarck summarized Europe by saying: "Der alte Jude, das ist der Mann...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NON-FICTION, FICTION: Gladstone v. Disraeli | 3/22/1926 | See Source »

...could have had the concession for all the oil in Mosul and concessions for anything else we liked. . . . I was approached by a Turkish representative last March with the proposition that Great Britain should have the exploitation of all the oil in the Vilayet of Mosul, provided that Turkey should be granted as much of the Vilayet as she wished. The reply of His Majesty's Government was that they were trustees for Irak, that they were not possessors but mandatories, and that as mandatories and trustees they could not bargain away the rights and interests of Irak...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COMMONWEALTH: COMMONWEALTH: The Week in Parliament Mar. 1, 1926 | 3/1/1926 | See Source »

Meanwhile at Angora, the Turkish capital, Sir Ronald Lindsay continued to negotiate the dicker with Turkey, on the basis of which the Anglo-Irak treaty may or may not go into effect without blood-spilling in Mosul. Sir Austen declared last week that this exalted chaffering and higgling are still going forward in "friendly" fashion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COMMONWEALTH: COMMONWEALTH: The Week in Parliament Mar. 1, 1926 | 3/1/1926 | See Source »

...There are 25,000 Americans who are active in Turkey. We are glad to have them. The best manufacturing firms have branches in Turkey. They are very hipful to us, and we look up to them. There are perhaps ten Turks active in America, and we are gaining a lot of valuable experience. What we want is just what America is doing for us, and what Britain can well do for India and her other dependencies. The East is through with slavery now, as the West was years...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TURKEY WILL NOT FIGHT SAYS KEMAL | 2/18/1926 | See Source »

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