Word: turkeys
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...treaty of amity and commerce and a treaty of extradition between the United States and Turkey were signed. These treaties replace one nearly a century old, signed...
Although never at war with Turkey, the United States broke off diplomatic relations on April 20, 1917, and official relations have not been maintained since. The two treaties just signed at Lausanne will not be ratified until a settlement of "claims against the respective governments" is reached...
...first session of the Lausanne Conference met at Lausanne, Switzerland, on November 20, 1922. The Allies were obliged to alter their tone to the Turks, because Turkey appeared before them as a conqueror. The Allies, led by the domineering Lord Curzon, British plenipotentiary to the Conference, merely dropped the form of their claims but "held rigidly to the substance. Turkey was told to go home and sign the treaty. She was warned not to break the peace, and with this final admonition the Allied delegates entered their wagon-lits and steamed...
...Allies made vigorous fight to keep the capitulations, the financial and economic clauses in the Treaty, but were finally forced to discard even these claims. The result of the second session shows plainly that Turkey, the loser in the Great War, won a great diplomatic victory over all her enemies who were combined against her. It is difficult to estimate the value of the Near Eastern Peace, which is after all only a technical settlement. One thing certain is that Turkey is once more a geographical entity and a Power to be dealt with in Near Eastern problems. The Treaty...
Married. Mrs. Sidi Wirt Spreckels, 35, widow of John D. Spreckels, II, son of the California capitalist, to Prince Suad Chakir of Turkey, at Constantinople...