19 MAY 1939, Page 15

It was this mixture of supremacy and boyishness which, in

spite of their interminable wrangles, impressed itself upon Ismet Pasha and his staff. "Evidemment," Riza Nour once said to me, in his Anatolian French, "Ler' Kerzoon n'est pas commode, mais, on sent qu'il porrait etre brave type." It was in this manner that our prestige in Turkey was re- established. It remained for Venizelos, with his Odyssean resourcefulness and his Cretan patience, to himl the harsh wounds left by the two Smyrna massacres. And we are able today to acclaim with thankfulness the consummation of a true act of appeasement initiated by these two great men.