The Archive · 1931

Turkey Opposed to League

Denver, Col, Jan

Constantinople, Jan. 18. the question of Turkey's rel ith the League [or Nations especially in connection Javith the present debate on the French Foreign Minister HI. Briand's Pan-European Federation schemic, the organ of the People's "strongly League which, the merely a mouse-trap in which the great Pewers are holding the smaller ones. In case of real need Turkey, the paper, urges, could not expect any help from the League, which would not raise its voice against any of its leading members, for instance the ease of France attacking Turkey. To join the League would therefore merely mean to compromise the revoluti aims of present-day Turkey.

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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