'The attitude of Mustapha Kemal Pasha with regard to the Allies' desire to prevent further hostilities in the Near East is an interesting example of how half measures give encouragement to certain schools of thought. In this instance the failure of the Allies completely to wipe Turkey out of Europe has given the Nationalist party some starting-off ground from which to formulate the preposterous demands the satisfaction of which Mustapha Kemal made the preliminary conditions to entering upon pourparlers. The Turkish leader seems to have been labouring under the impression that he would enter the conference chamber as a victor, for his demand for the alteration of the peace treaty with respect to Constantinople and tke Straits means nothing else. The indications are that the frustrated plot to bring about revolution in Constantinople and to assassinate the British Commander-in-Chief, was the work of Bolshevik agents, and the connexion between this and Mustapha Kemal Pasha's demands is too patent to be overlooked. It is consequently probable that a new attempt is being made by the Bolsheviks to involve the Allies in difficulties, for nothing would suit them better than the Straits under the control of a Turkish government favourably disposed to themselves. It was, of course, a wild scheme, and just the sort of thing to which the Turks in their present poor pass would lend a particularly credulous ear.
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