APPEAL TO THE LEAGUE
TURKEY WOULD GET FAIR DEAL.
(ABSTBUJAN - HBW ZBAIANB CA»U ASSOCIATION.) PARIS, 30th January. In his address to the League of Nations Council, in which he announced that if the Turks rejected arbitration in connection with the Irak frontiers, Britain would invoke Article 11 of the Covenant, Lord Balfonr said . that Britain was simply acting in accordance with her mandate. He regretted that the Turks did not accept Lord Curzon's proposal that the League should arbitrate regarding/the frontiers of the mandated territory, and hoped this, which was the fairest method *of dealing with the matter, would ultimately be accepted.
He thought a threat to the world's peace would not occur, but nevertheless precautions must be "taken. If there Were no threat, and no danger of attack on the Irak frontiers, no nation would rejoice more than, Britain.
Although Turkey was not a member of the League, she could participate in the discussion, where she would be welcome, and would be treated with justice and perfect equality. ' M. Viviani, the President, said no Power, "whether a member or not, need fear the lack of the Council's fairnesß. The Council had noted Lord Curzon's appeal, and would not take action until peace was endangered..
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Evening Post, Volume CV, Issue 27, 1 February 1923, Page 7
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205APPEAL TO THE LEAGUE Evening Post, Volume CV, Issue 27, 1 February 1923, Page 7
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