Word: turkeys
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...crux of the trouble between Britain and Turkey has been that each has a different idea as to where the boundary line should be situate. This led to no mere equivocation. Angry words and angry deeds resulted; land was occupied by both sides, not without bloodshed. War was in the air; but, fortunately, sane counsel prevailed; and the two Nations placed their problem unreservedly before the League for its solution...
...decision of the Council was that the line described in the Lausanne Treaty should be recognized by both parties. Exceptions were made: three times the line dipped south in favor of Turkey; three times it bulged north in favor of Irak, whose mandatory guardian is Britain. The British received most territory; and the concessions granted to Turkey were regarded as useless. Turkey, however, won a big point; for she established her right over a tract of land that Britain had emphatically labeled "No Man's Land...
...meeting reported Bulgaria crying for American schools and social help; Turkey officially opposed to any form of foreign penetration, but unofficially craving the civilizing influence of the missionary; Japan calmed in her anger by the missionaries, who explained that the Japanese Exclusion Act passed by the U. S. is not because of Christianity but in spite of it; scores of other countries seeking the aid that the Church can give...
Ismet Pasha, Turkish Foreign Minister, swearing by all his gods that Turkish troops had not crossed the boundary (i.e.. the boundary as set by Turkey), warned the League, last week, that if British troops committed acts of aggression on the frontier, Britain must shoulder the entire responisiblity...
...boundary line was defined in the Treaty of Sèvres (1920); but as Turkey refused to ratify the Treaty, the boundary question was left unsettled...