23 DECEMBER 1922, Page 29

Mr. Pember Reeves, the chairman of the Anglo-Hellenic League, has

written a vigorous pamphlet on the diplomacy of the Western Powers in the Near East. He points out that Mustapha Kemal has finished the conflict that began in the eleventh century when the Turks burst into Asia Minor. " Christianity and Hellenism have passed away ; anything worth calling civilization has passed away with them. Greek, sPoken in Ionia since the days of Homer, became a dead language there this autumn and the last of the Seven Churches of Asia has perished in fire and blood." Mr. Reeves blames Great Britain and still more France for permitting, if not encouraging, the destruction of the Greek remnant, and he asks scornfully what they expect to gain.