Oct. 9.
As anticipated in our leading article of September 29 the Turks have not -failed to realize that a resolute attitude would get them "much more than the Allies bad offered und without their having to make promises of any kind. We claim no particular merit for prescience. The inference from the facts was obvious: a bold and determined enemy flushed with victory, confronted by a congeries of nations—we cannot commit the mockery of calling them Allies—not merely divided, but among whom one is only too anxious to give away anything that the Turks suggest, and the normal Oriental habit, when offered-an inch, of asking not one but several ells. If there could have been any doubt of the outcome of such a combination of circumstances, it was speedily dissipated by the Mudania conference. Possibly the Turks accepted that conference because they wished to gain time, as one telegram plainly hinted. The more likely explanation was that they were acute enough to keep up an appearance of being open and aboveboard, frank and conciliatory, in order to make the more certain of their aim, without the expense of fighting for it. They were sure enough of France, but not so sure of Great Britain with her inconveniently large naval and military forces in the Straits. Whatever the motive, the facts are not in doubt. The Kemalists' representatives—why, by the way, was it not insisted that Mustapha Kemal himself should be present? He is not Sultan, to send a catspaw agent—opened the Mudania conference with all kinds of fair-sounding professions. But in 6 very little time these gave way to stipulations, obstacles of every kind. The Turks did not mean that Mudania should succeed. _To-day's telegrams say that M. Bouillon instructed the French General to support the Turkish demand for Thrace. We can only hope that this is untrue. At any rate, the Mudania conference was -broken off. It was succeeded by another, in Paris, the deplorable results of which we know.
The surrender to the Turks is virtually complete. They get back Thrace, they get back Constantinople. The one condition Yemaining is that they shall give
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