Show RARD ERARD HEADS I IPEN WAR AR ON N NURl URl URK TREATY I A m mer c r i c ans lope pe to Defeat i ion n of Lausanne Pact Len Question Arises i t TRADED FOR CHARGE I I I Protection as asI remised by This Coun- Coun ry Traded for Chester il Rights to Benefit Few I r F EW YORK YORI Nov 24 An 24 An organ- organ to frustrate lot the Lausanne treaty by the thed Jed d States senate Renate was aj atho the Yale club today b by a group I Influential J Americans Americana he headed ded by bv i W W. Gerard former I Ito to Germany German and now chairman gio Uto e American committee for tor the e of ot Armenia I previously statesmen high army church officials OW ed ed- ed r anU torel foreign n relief workers was vod ved for presentation to lx esi I fand i Coolidge Secretary of ot State and individual senators be- be whom the treaty will como for tor at the forthcoming sost sos sos- t of f congress document f charges charge's s that that- that tho the fi L. L 19 d departments department's envoys at Laume Laume Lau- Lau me ino sacrificed to Mustapha Kel Ke- Ke l tho rights of ot Am American rican citizens Turk Turkey y and threw w overboard the them then m n nhan people whom this coun coun- lI J was pledged to protect protect protect-In In E tango ngo for tho the Chester conces- conces n to ns ito a few tew American business ince transferred to to alien lIen conR con- con R RALLY LLY INDEFENSIBLE is morally mOI an yi nl said the memorandum It Itan an aft u utterly terly humiliating and nd pur- pur ers ers' treaty It surrenders every Mean right In Turkey It ren- ren Impossible the tho continuance of i if r Jean educational and philan- philan epic enterprises in that country t qs our OUI solemn pledge l' to Ar Ar- ala T Th Jib concessions It purls purL puro pur pur- L ls to o secure for tor a a. few tew Americans Ey w V admitted to be of ot dubious and nd have ha already been trans- trans rea reu red Into alien hands jie he e Turks have broken thus g their promises of ot good beha- beha ind their guarantees to our and to tho remnants of ot r ind lans In Turkey All I v have ha recently reached the I side tide world from Turkish and f for for- or- or Sources show that factional I f contacts wi widespread bandit bandit- id ti d hopeless economic chaos sey seus se- se us y r th threaten Kemal's regime the tho task taek which confronts 9 government is according to the then hat n siOn of ot its own leaders a n. tru- tru one ILL IsTL GAIN NOTHING stands to gain absolute absolute- thing by bv resuming relations t Il urke in this And can further by maintaining ama atus quo and awaiting devel- devel I fl 1 ts The downfall of tho iCe Ke- I tB appears appeals inevitable and im- im By Br now no surrendering our ouri i 9 to Kemal Kemil we Wf shall find it dl- dl It to roa soi t them against an any 10 c which may mav overthrow and d M him IP believe bellove that tho honor of ot ca no less than every dictate I iason Mon demands that the tho senate t the Lausanne treat treaty r r treat treaty Is in attacked on seven soven jS lf signers of ot the memorandum i Ing that r nationals in Turkey are to tod d of ot the protection of ot the tho 1 ICan cnn consular courts courts n. a preIl pro pre I Il ve they have hue enjoyed since 12 nd made subject to the tho no no- Uly corrupt Turkish police and Dr r missionary institutions In rl aro are to be likewise subject laws The Tho question of ot l. l suffered Buffered b by Americans gugh arbitrary and Illegal gal acts lW for for later Inter discussion Our met mer- vessels may as In the past s the Dardanelles which mer-I mer ever T ma may bo be closed at the tho will Turks Turku as was done in Hit 1914 4 Vv Our r archaeologists enjoy tho the thoL theno no L rights that ore are enjoyed by I lh archaeologists This only s tho the comment that t there been any Turkish arch- arch 2 A LATION LOSS SHOWN i k i. je io e open door wo door o resume our l r privilege to trade with and andIn andin fr in Turkey lurkey The I Ial al privilege may be bo gauged by I tt ct that thal In 1913 when wl Turkeys Turkey's I mated population was lean m-lean exports to that country to or 16 cents The Tho population dt fir t Tury Tur fur biow y Is 18 only about 1000 minorities are to en- en Turkish laws ho protection of ot LS In tho the past Since 1774 1114 Turkey Turley TurkeyS TurleyS S solemnly agreed In tw twenty ono ono nty-ono C documents to protect If lf as asp ter cr ir tho the document says las p rs the tho heater Chester concession was Inducement leading to tho the sac sac- lest Sif ot of American rights and tho the of of oZ Armenia then In light of ot our fuller knowledge of ot nature of ot this conces- conces fht no longer even e In American tho nas-tho tho only plausible argument vor Vor or of the tho Lausanne treat treaty be- be rues mes untenable The i attack on the treat treaty was led Iffy ID Y by Mr lr Gerard Oscar S S. S rus raus former ambassador to Tur- Tur it Captain Paxton Hibben fori for for- p i Russian Kussian and Near Eat relict relief i A A. D. D 1 F I Hamlin Columbia university Professor R Continued on page 6 i I II I GERARD HEADS Continued from page 1 1 Albert Bushnell Hart of Harvard and Dr Paul S. S Leinbach of Phila Phila- delphia Attached to the memorandum was wasa a list of names which Included Governor Governor Governor Gov Gov- Alfred E. E Smith of New York Alton B B. B Parker Bishop William T. T Manning Banning of New York Governor Lee M. M Russell of Mississippi William William Wil Wil- liam Guggenheim Bishop Thomas F. F Gaylor of Tennessee Bishop Philip M M. I. I Rhinelander of Pennsylvania Pennsylvania Pennsyl Pennsyl- vania ranta Josephus Daniels Rabbi Stephen Stephen Stephen Ste Ste- phen S. S Wise of New York Dr Frank Crane H II N. N McCracken president resident of or Vassar college Rev Dr S. S Parkes Cadman George Karen Ua- Ua Ha Haven ven ren Putnam Judge Henry Wade Va e eRogers Rogers Rt Rev Thomas J J. Shahan rector ector of the Catholic University of America and Haley Halcy Fiske president jf of the Metropolitan Life Insurance company |