Big Three at San Remo Place Blame for Delay on United States
Await Note from Wilson—To Liberate Millions From Ottoman Yoke and Internationalize Constantinople
San Remo, April 19. — While the inter-allied supreme council here will unquestionably send a strong note to Germany, putting the allies on record as harmoniously demanding and insisting upon her disarmament and threaten a virtual blockade if the Versailles terms are not lived up to, this will be followed by a radical revision of the whole peace treaty, involvlng liberal concessions to Germany. A compromise will be finally drafted with regard to the Ruhr region, and both France and Germany will be satisfied.
At the end of the first day of its deliberations, the council drafted a reply to President Wilson’s recent note on the Turkish peace treaty to contain clauses of which tho President had objected.
The note, it is understood, complains that American nonrepresentatlon at the San Itemo conference is delaying the Turkish settlement, asserting that America’s assent is necessary to render the treaty operative. Late this evening It was officially announced that the supreme council had decided to summon tho Turkish peace delegates to Paris to receive the text of the peace treaty on May 10.
Clauses of Turkish Treaty
Under the treaty as tentatively approved by the supreme council, here, Turkey will lose one-half of her inhabitants.
Ten million Arabs, Greeks and Armenians will be liberated from the Ottoman yoke. Syria, Palestine and Arabia will be taken from Turkey. The administration of Armenia, experts have figured out, will require 40,000 allied troops and $50,000,000 annually.
Constantinople and the Dardanelles are to be Internationalized and policed by British troops.
An inter-allied garrison will be established at Galllpoli. The Armenians are to be given special port facilities at Trebizond.
Sir John Cadman, Great Britain’s oil expert, has been sent for in connection with Turkish oil for shipping and other fuel purposes. Italy and France are short of oil.
“Well, gentlemen, here we are all in the Garden of Eden! I wonder who will play the snake.”
It was thus that Premier Lloyd George greeted Premiers Millerand, of France, and Nitti, of Italy, just before the meeting, and Lloyd George and Millerand walked along the beach late today after the meeting chatting cordially.
Millerand, it is understood, is trying to impress upon his British and Italian confreres the necessity of adopting a united firm front toward Germany, especially on the question of that country’s disarmament, expressing the fear that unless drastic action is taken Germany will continue to temporize in regard to fulfillment of the vital clauses of the Versailles pact.
Lloyd George and Nitti, on the other hand, are seeking to impress the French Premier with the necessity of France agreeing that coercion of Germany by cutting off supplies and not by military action is the proper solution but Millerand insists upon crushing any revival of junkerism with prompt and united armed force.
Richmond Times-Dispatch, Richmond, VA, April 20, 1920
