A Serious Position: Mandatory Territory Given to Turkey:
A Blow to Allied Solidarity am increasingly serious view is taken in official quarters of the ne agreement made between Frane and Kemalist Turkey, the text which has now been received London, snys a Paris correspondent, writing on November 4, hat at' present: is totally inexplicable is the following sequence of events. Last July, when _M. Fravklin-Bouillon Jett for the Near East, the British Government vited M. Briandj to explain the extent of the commission that had been given him. M. Briand then wave un assurance, as categoric as any diplomatic statement can be, that so far as the French Government Was concerned no agreement would be arrived at with Angora which went beyond the three questions—the exchange of prisoners, economic concessions in the tripartite zone, and the Cilician frontier between the French mandatory zone and Turkey, When M. Franklin-Bouillon's activities in Asia Minor gave rise a few weeks ago to disquieting rumours about the ultimate scope of the pact that was being negotiate ed, M. Briand, in answer to a request from London, repeated the assurance of last July.
The text of the agreement has now been sent by the French Government to the British Gevernment. Its terms are in direct conflict with the assurances given by Briand. Not since the armistice has there been so crude diplomatic situation.
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