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Show I GREECE MADE STRONGER, the Turkish treatj Signed last week, Greece obtains the twelve Aegean islands, occupied by .;aly in 19)2 as a pledge thai Turkey would respect the Tripolitan peace of that year The e- York World, commenting on this awarding ot the islands is-lands to Q ree c saj i The islanders are main! Greek, but the Italians long demurred at seeing Greece, which hail helped little in the war, fare respectively respective-ly better than Italy, which had fought well and Buffered mm h. Besides Be-sides the islands, Greece gets a strip of eastern Thrace, lately occupied occu-pied by her troops, and valuable shore regions in Asia .Minor, where Greeks have been a colonizing, seafaring and trading race for more than 2000 years Turkey retains nominal sovereignty over Constantinople, Constan-tinople, an area in Europe not much larger Can New York ity, and those parts of Asia Minor which are indubitably Turkish in cdia racier, rac-ier, subject to the separate rights of the Arab "kingdom.'' where King Feisul has already been deposed bj the French, and of the Armenians, Ar-menians, still menaced h the rebelling nationalists, Oreece has emerged from Ihe war greatly strengthened as a nation na-tion and highly rewarded along elhuological lines for the somewhat belated assistance given the allies in the mighty struggle for democracy |