GREEK, TURK, & MOSLEM FEELING

Evening Post, Volume CII, Issue 33, 8 August 1921, Page 6

GREEK, TURK, & MOSLEM FEELING

The Greek victory over the Kemalist (nationalist) ; Turks "is already showing some of the expected results. Beaten in the west, the Turkish-Moslem faction is threatening to react in the east, and has found a mouthpiece for this threat in the person of the Afghan delegate at Angora, who is reputed aa saying that, in retaliation for Britain's aiding of Christian Greece against Moslem Turkey, Afghans will stir up Indian revolutionaries and the frontier tribes. Moslem threats are hot empty talk, but only experience can prove whether or not the case Of Turkey will be ividely. and p*nianently championed by the great .Mohammedan mass of India and the Middle East. France and Italy, who ■ took pains to put themselves right with Turkish and Moslem sentiment, will find the Greek victory an awkward fact. In Britain, sympathy for the Christian Greeks is mixed with suspicion of political Greece, x and of King Cohstantine in particular; so it Can hardly be hoped that Kemalist spite against the British Government will carry with it Cohßtantiliist gratitude. The outlook of the Treaty of Sevres is now more vague than ever.