TURKEY'S CLAIM

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22392, 13 April 1936, Page 9

TURKEY'S CLAIM

DARDANELLES SECURITY GUARANTEES INOPERATIVE REARMING BY POWERS [ (Received April 12, 5.5 p.m.) LONDON. April .ll A Note from the Turkish Government has been handed to the French Foreign Office, also to the League of Nations and to the Italian, Japanese, Russian, Greek, Rumanian, Bulgarian and Yugoslavian Governments. It is understood to declare that the guarantees under the Lausanne Treaty are ' uncertain and inoperative owing te the rearmament of the Powers and can no longer shield Turkey from external menace. Turkey, accordingly, invites the signatories of the Lausanne Treaty to negotiate with a view to restoring the Dardanelles to the conditions of security essential for the inviolability of Turkish territory. The Note adds: —Political crises have demonstrated that the present machinery of collective guarantees is too slow in operating and that delays cause the authority of international decisions to be lost. It cannot be said to-day that the security of the Dardanelles is assured by the guarantees. Turkey cannot remain indifferent to the dangerous failure to .let." „