The Allies went on, under cover of pious phrases, to
abandon the idea of freeing the Kurds. As for the Armenian remnant, Turkey was asked to recognize the rights of Turkish Armenians to " a national home on the eastern frontiers of Turkey in Asia," to be delimited by a League of Nations Commission which, we may be sure, will find very few survivors of the Armenian people. As for Smyrna, the town was to have a Greek garrison, but the province was to be policed by a Greco-Turkish force with Allied officers and administered by Greek and Turkish officials under a Christian Governor, with an elective legislature. The province would remain under Turkish sovereignty and pay tribute to the Turk. Nothing was said about Thrace. Mr. Lloyd George told the Turks that the terms must be accepted or rejected as a whole. The Turkish delegates had the audacity to criticize the concessions, but Mustapha Kemal at Angora will doubtless accept them and trust to further intrigue to restore Turkish misrule in Smyrna. The Greeks, by their folly, have contributed to this result, but Mr. Lloyd George's surrender to the Turcophiles is none the less a grievous disappointment. The restoration of Western Asia Minor to civilization is again deferred indefinitely.
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