NEAR EAST

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LVI, 23 July 1923, Page 5

NEAR EAST

FOUR FREEDOMS SECURED

(By Electrri Telegraph.—Copyright). (Australian & N.Z.. Cable Association)

LONDON, July 20,

Air Percival L-indon, reviewing the work of the Lausanne Conference m the Daily Telegraph, says that four great freedoms have been secured by this treaty—the freedom of New Arabia and all that means to Asia; the freedom, ot the Straits and all that means to Europe; the freedom of Turkey herself from Russia through the League of Nations, and freedom for the Allies to start their several works afresh and frame unhampered their policies in the Near East.

TURKS’ TRIUMPH

(Published in The Times)

LONDON, July 20

The Times special correspondent at Lausanne says: “When the Treaty is signed, the Turks will have the greatest cause for enthusiasm. All the evidence obtainable confirms the view that the New Turks are but the old writ large; that the coming era of enlightenment and brotherly-love in Turkey, which is. 'the correct thing, officially, to hope for, will, from the foreigner’s viewpoint, be at best humiliating and at worst a bloody chaos.

“From the moment that Turkey was admitted to negotiation on terms of equality with European States some such result was inevitable. None will begrudge Ismet his complacent declaration that the Conference was a splendid tribute to r ohat admission of equality; but when one listens to the tales from Angora; when one sees photographs of that verminous and squalid town, the little Hall of the Grand National Assembly, with its wooden galleries and paraffin lamps, for all the world like a dilapidated village schoolroom ; when one realise what manner of men these are who have dictated terms to Europe, one stands astonished at the pass to which two happily extinct politicians of civilised races should have succeeded in bringing Iho prestige of the West.”