ISMET'S DIPLOMACY

Evening Star, Issue 18333, 21 July 1923, Page 7

ISMET'S DIPLOMACY

TRIUMPH OF THE TURKFEARS FOR THE FUTURE. Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. LONDON, July 20. (Received July 21, at 11,30 a.m.) The special correspondent of ‘ The Times ’ at Lausanne says that when the treaty is signed the Turks will have the greatest cause for enthusiasm. All the evidence which is obtainable confirms the belief that the now Turks are but- the old writ large, and that the coming era of enlightenment and brotherly love in Turkey, which is the correct thing to officially hope for, will from the foreigner’s viewpoint be at the best humiliating and at tire worst bloody chaos. From tho moment that Turkey was admitted to the negotiations on terms of equality- with tho European Stales some such result has been inevitable. None will begrudge Ismet his complacent declaration that the conference was a splendid tribute to that admission of equality; but when one listens to talcs from Angora, and when one sees photographs of that verminous, squalid town, and the little hall of the National Assembly with its wooden galleries, paraffin lamps, for all the world like a dilapidated village school room; when one' realises that tho manner of men these are who dictated the terms to Europe, one stands astonished at the pass to which they have succeeded in bringing the prestige of the West.—‘ The Times.

LONDON, July 20. Those who are conversant with the situation in Turkey are apprehensive of tho possibilities, especially m Constantinople after tho withdrawal of the occupying troops, in view of tho anti-foreign feeling among the Turkish extremists, who regard the settlement as a triumph over the foreigner. While the position of the Western Europeans may be difficult, its seriousness for the Greeks and tho Christian Turks who have tho slightest relations with tho occupation forces is evidenced by the arrest of Greeks, and the report that the Turks have decided to expel hundreds of Russians who worked for tho Allied forces, and also many native Christians.—Reuter.

“ FOUR GREAT FREEDOMS.”

LONDON, July 20, (Received July 21, at 11.15 a.m.)

A correspondent, in reviewing the work of the Lausanne Conference in tho ‘ Daily Telegraph’ says: “Four great freedoms have been secured by this treaty—the freedom of a’ now Arabia and all that it means to Asia, the freedom of the Straits and all that it moans to Europe, the freedom of Turkey herself from Russia through tho League of Nations, and the freedom for the Allies to restart their several works afresh and frame unhampered their policies in the Near East.”— A. and N.Z. Cable. RUSSIA AND STRAITS CONVENTION. LAUSANNE, July 20. (Received July 21, at 11.30 a.m.) The Soviet representatives have announced that the Moscow Government is disposed to sign the Straits Convention within twenty-one days. At the same time they have made it .clear that they do not agree with certain clauses in the convention.—A. and N.Z. Cable.