REFUSED TO R.tifY.

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXIII, 21 January 1927, Page 9

REFUSED TO RATIFY.

AMERICA AND LAUSANNE TREATY. By Cable—Press Association—Copyright. Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. WASHINGTON, January 18. The Senate on Tuesday refused to ratify the Lausanne Treaty, re-estab-lishing diplomatic and commercial relations with Turkey. (The Treaty of Peace between Turkey and the Allied Powers (following the Great War) was signed at Lausanne on July 24, 1923, and was subsepuentiy ratified by all the signatories except the U’nited States. The Treaty defined Turkey’s new boundaries and defined for a revision of the system on which foreigners were doing business in Turkey, a system which resembled that obtaining in China today. When the Treaty came up for ratification in the American Senate on December 23 last, Senator King, of Utah, created a sensation by declaring that America signed the Treaty at the instigation of powerful oil and tobacco interests who had just obtained big concessions ’in Turkey. He said that at the beginning of the Conference America had held out for the liberation of Armenia and the protection of Christians in Turkey, but had abandoned this attitude, owing to pressure by financiers. “The Lausann e Treaty,” he declared, “is the low tide of Christian diplomacy since the Congress of Vienna. It is a challenge to American honour and ideals and to Christianity.” Senator King demanded" an enquiry into th e part played by oil magnates in the signing of the Treaty).