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Show PRELATE GIVEN AMERICAN HELP Turkish Plan to Expel Greek Patriarch Protested LAUSANNE, Dec 10 (By The As-BOciated As-BOciated Press) The American dcle-j gat Ion today entered a protest at the I Lausanne conferen.. ngalnst th'( Turkish plan to expel the Greek pn-ttinrch pn-ttinrch from Constantinople. No de- clslon on this Important matt, r was reached by the delegates. The dispute over the Mosul oil fields, suddenly brought to the front again b the British memorandum ln-j sisting on Great Britain's mandatory lights, likewise In- made no progress toward settlement. Klsa Nur Bey. the second Turkish plenipotentiary, informed The Associated Asso-ciated Press tonight that Turkey would leld on neither of these qucs-l tions the patr larch must go. and1 Mosul must be recognised as Turkish "We have done nothlns except make concessions since our arrival," he asserted. as-serted. BASIS OF ARGUMENT. The American delegation declared in its statement thit on "intolerable injustice would be clone"' If Turkey insisted in-sisted on expelling the Griek patriae pa-triae h. Turkey brought forward new arguments argu-ments today to cupport her decision that the head of the orthodox church must be deported; a Turkish delegate explained that the former privileges held by non-Mi.'olem communltl' s sprang from the an lent utoman em-pin em-pin which was a theocratic empire But now had come the separation of the caliphate from the state, abolition of the monarchy and the establishment establish-ment of a purely domestic regime. Hence the religious leaders of the various var-ious communities could exercise no light or privileges, except spiritual. INTEGRITY ATTACKER The Turkish argument Insists that the patriarchate, which up to the present pres-ent has been, in the uii:lsh view, nn Institution of a political, rather than a ivigious character" should be irans- ferred outside Of urkey, because Its attitude at-titude and policies In the past would prevent It from adapting Itself to the m-w o.jer of things. The suppression of all political privileges of the patriarch pa-triarch .Le and the institutions sur-roundir.g sur-roundir.g it. the Turks contended. Would entirely remove the reason for its exittence. Discontinuance of the temporal privilege priv-ilege of the Clergy and the transfer of the patriarchate beyond the Turkish frontier, it is declared, ls a necessity as Inevitable forTTurkey as it Is 6alu tatory for the Interested non-Moslem .communities. The discussion of this subject will , be continued next week. |