Word: turkeys
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...American Governments upon the subject. M. Otchiai, Japanese Ambassador to Italy and delegate at Lausanne, came unexpectedly to America's support, announcing that Japan would not sign the Concessions Protocol because it violated the Open Door (so dear to the Japanese in Korea). Ismet, much surprised, said that Turkey would decide her own economic policy without outside interference. But none the less the British claims tumbled out of the Treaty, to be argued directly between London and Washington or New York...
...Bulgarian people appeal to the Powers to carry out their one promise to Bulgaria!" Premier Zankov's words referred to the recent Greek agreement with the Turks at Lausanne, whereby Karagatch, railway junction immediately south of Adrianople, and the Karagatch-Luli Burgas railway section was transferred to Turkey. Thus Bulgaria is dependent on Greece and Turkey instead of on Greece for a trade route to the Aegean...
Secretary of Labor Davis, who sailed on the Leviathan, plans to spend six weeks in Europe-all over Europe, in France, Poland, Rumania, Czecho-Slovakia, Austria, Hungary, Turkey, Belgium, Holland, Great Britain, possibly Italy. His purpose is to study the feasibility of having prospective immigrants examined and passed in their native countries instead of at the portals of America. While he is doing this work, Miss Mary Anderson, head of the Women's Bureau of the Department of Labor, will make similar investigation in the Scandinavian countries...
...Ottoman debt question is to be removed from the proposed Treaty, This is a great victory for Turkey, but she is restricted in making a separate settlement with the bondholders, to paying interest in sterling (against her wishes) and to making no modification in the debt contracts without mutual agreement between herself and her creditors...
Regarding evacuation an agreement was reached whereby all foreign troops will be withdrawn from Constantinople within six weeks after the ratification of the treaty by the Grand National Assembly at Angora, capital of Turkey...