Word: turkeys
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Lausanne Conference took a temporary lease of life when Ismet Pasha, head of the Turkish Delegation, and Eleutherios Venezelos, head of the Greek Delegation, had a verbal tiff. The trouble was over a discussion of a commercial convention. It had been agreed that the convention between Turkey and the Great Powers should last for five years, and only two years for Rumania, Yugo-Slavia and Greece. Ismet Pasha suddenly announced that, as Turkey did not do much business with Rumania and Yugoslavia, he would be willing to let the period stand at two years, but in view of the fact...
...main questions outstanding are a settlement of the insurance question for the Smyrna fire and the settlement of the method of paying the Ottoman debt−France at present demanding gold, Turkey offering paper money...
...April, 1920, the Allies at the San Remo Conference agreed to give Great Britain the mandate for Palestine. The draft Mandate was submitted to the League of Nations in December, 1920, after Turkey had renounced her sovereignty over the country by signing the Treaty of Sevres in August, 1920. The Mandate for Palestine was not, however, passed by the Council of the League until July...
...issued a manifesto declaring that the new Government will abide by ths terms of the Treaty of Neuilly and that it " is absolutely opposed to any sort of warlike adventure." Despite this pronouncement, neighboring countries-Rumania, Yugoslavia, Greece-are holding their armies on the frontiers " in case of accidents." Turkey, another neighbor, was considerably perturbed over the Bulgarian crisis, as it was thought likely that an attempt would be made to establish a Bulgarian outlet on the Aegean Sea. This would have had an instant effect on the Lausanne Conference. However, it can be said that neither the economic...
...doubtful that the Soviet promise to end anti-British propaganda means much, as the Communist Party, which drills and sends out the agitators to Turkey, Persia and the distant goal of British India, from the propaganda schools of Samarkand and Tashkent, is technically not the same as the Soviet Government. The British prestige in Asia is the first line of defense that any such combination must destroy, and that will take more than propaganda...