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Show NEW ATTEMPT TO STliZE Prior Droits? Conference at Lausanne of Vast Importance to United States. LAl'SANNK. Switzerland. Nov IS 1 fBy the Associated Press.) Another attempt to stabilise the peace of Europe will bto undertaken hero next Monday with the inaurugation of the Near Eastern conference attended at-tended by practically all the powera of western and southeastern Europe. Primarily summoned to ' st.iblu h pea. e between victorious Turkey and defeated Greece, the conference possesses pos-sesses vast Importance to tho I'nited Slates and to all Europe It must settle the various problems that have grown out of the Turks' .. turn to the continent from which they were expelled ex-pelled after the great war. as well as the. all-dominant question of the freedom pf the Dardanelles, in which America has a natural Interest. LAl' io N FRON1 1 i RS The conference must lay down Turkey's n w frontiers and take up the delicate question Of Turkev s capitulations, ca-pitulations, or concessions. whereby foreigners in Turkey, like those living in China, have been exempt from Turkish laws ;iid tree from taxation Tin key demands tieedom Irom these restrictions and clamors for national administrative liberty. 1 Without departing from her traditional tradi-tional policy pf non-intervention in ; European politics, the United States has shown her interest in the forthcoming forth-coming developments of the confer-once confer-once by designating three observers: Richard Washburn Child. American ambassador to Italy; Joseph C. Grew, minister to Switzerland. and Bear Admiral Mark L. Bristol. offi American representative at Constantinople Constanti-nople r.n v is SOUGHT. Recent events In London, Paris., Constantinople and Athens have demonstrate the delicate nature of( the relations between England and j Franco concerning this Near Eastern tangle. With statesmen of each of these countries striving for "unity of front" which will safeguard their separate natlona aspirations as regards re-gards commerce and their various1 "special positions." The prediction Is freely made here lhat the Lausanpe conference will have a weighty hearing hear-ing upon the futiirn amity and harmonious har-monious co-operation between England Eng-land and France in European affair oo |