Show I Daily Ec Dig Digest Universal Discontent With Turkish Treaty T JS IS hard to discover who In Europe Europe Europe Eu Eu- IT rope is pleased with the Turkish treaty Greece apparently has the best reason to be satisfied al altho although al- al tho though gh certain of the the most Indisputably Indis indis- indisputably put bl Greek Islands have been at al al allotted tp to the bigger pow powers rs Italy is disillusioned British opinion both Liberal and Conservative ridicules the pact pact The French view Is tersely summed up up P In the bald statement of La L Liberte te Before the war the total of of ot French interests in the east was 66 per cent and that of England 8 8 per cent The Turkish treaty grants to England England En gland gland square kilometers about square miles or eight times the area of Great Britain I Syria left to France Is equivalent to fifth one of the British I share I The London Nation old Nation old standby of the British Liberals remarks Liberals remarks acidly I that It I ig id a nice question whether the Turkish treaty Is the worst of the series but that ifa it any case case It it Is the thc least likely to stand the test of time Of Of the four salient points 1 internationalization of the straits 2 aggrandizement of Greece 3 severance of Arabic lands from Turkey Turkey Turkey Tur Tur- key and 4 subjection of the re remainder remainder remainder re- re of Turkey to permanent allied al allied allied al- al lied control the Nation finds that the first three are more more mor or or r less fulfilled but the last may remain Indefinitely on pap paper paper r. r It points out that all Turkish Turkey is in revolt and that everywhere except In Constantinople and Smyrna the hold of of the allies is precarious The treaty as Signor said cannot be Imposed without ward war in Asia Minor and who will wage wae it 1 The The Nation NaHon also complains that the iho league of nations is left In the background background background back back- ground with the sole power of determining deter deter- mining a blockade of the straits while th the administration of the treaty is l left tc to toa a separate commission which ex excludes excludes excludes' ex- ex eludes eludes' not only the central central powers but the neutrals Moreover It it is not edifying to find ind that Italy wilt will keep Rhodes Rhodes' and while we keep Cyprus these are racially Greek lands Then there Is Armenia whose boundaries are left to President Wilsons Wilson's Wilsons Wil Wit sons son's decision But If he agrees and fixes boundaries who is to o dr drive ve out the Turks the the- Nation Natio asks The conservative London Outlook is hardly less despairing A stable treaty it says is usually lly a a. happy combination of general principles with local circumstances In the present instance the local circumstances perhaps perhaps perhaps per per- haps in any case were a bar bar- barto to complete complete complete com com- stability but t that that at being granted the general principles actuating the settlement are equally shy of discovery ery unless ery unless one suggests that the general general general gen gen- eral principle was that each of the victorious powers should take precisely precise precise- ly what It wanted only leaving to the loser what nobody wanted or to the league of nations what everybody wanted so much that they could trust nobody else to administer it as asIn asin asin In the case of Constantinople or to refused the the United States which States which gift at any price price price-a a territory like Armenia Armenia Armenia Ar Ar- menia whose aspirations everybody applauded and whose administration everybody wl with h a suspicious suspicious cious clous unanimity that one would world like i to to ascribe to altruism did not the rest of the treaty rather emphatically contradict the existence of that rarest of virtues in International politics at atthe atthe the present p place a e and time e And as asfor asfor asfor for the league of nations in this connection connection connection con con- the Outlook notes that it was was originally devised as a kind of gateway gateway gateway gate gate- way to a better world and a symbolic symbolic sym sym- bolic bolio portal to a palace of peace It It gradually being transformed Into a adust adust dust bin One unfortunate certainty comes out of It all the Outlook observes mournfully I The rivalry between Gre Greece ce and and Italy is not a a. matter of yesterday and the secular jealousy which divided the Roman empire and ranged Rome and Constantinople against each other for a a thousand thousand years is not yet ex extinct ex- ex Nor will the terms of the treaty help to diminish that ancient feud cud There was a a time when Italy entered the war when her rather large Levantine Levantine Levantine Le Le- Le- Le vantine ambitions seemed likely to bo bJ gratified much more generously genero Those ambitions are perhaps larger than hse cowl could Justify otherwise ise than on the grounds ground's s. s of patriotic faith In her destiny but the fruition has fruition has been correspondingly orr small both on the eastern side of at the Adriatic and In Asia Minor The fact that Greece has been accorded rather more than her deserts and Italy rather less will not in the least diminish the old tension tension ten ten- sion between the two countries and statesmen with European vision vill will do well to reckon with this this' fact as lis a permanent element In the general sit Greece's disproportionate share of ot the booty Is also a surprise to to the London Saturday Review It says Thrace Thrace Gallipoli and Smyrna Smyrna are pretty good wages to the power that flatly refused to meet its treaty obligations obligations to Serbia when attacked by Bulgaria at the beginning of of the war and whose ambiguous attitude for forthe forthe the first two years vears caused us IS a great deal deaI of anxiety The Greeks did not lift a finger to help us us' a Gallipoli which nevertheless ne is to be given n to toI them As Ad for Smyrna the only ap apparent apparent apparent ap- ap I parent reason for adding It to Greece Is that he the Greeks occupied It as soon as they could Clever clever M M. Greek influence and in int int int in- in t t have been too prevalent at Constantinople |