Lord Wester Wemyss, the late rust Sea Lord, made a
strong protest against the Turkish Peace Treaty in the House of Lords on Wednesday, asserting that Smyrna.and Thrace were Turkish and that India would be aggrieved at the harsh treatment of Turkey. Lord Curzon, expressing regret that the sub j cot had been raised at such a time, defended the Treaty as reasonable and just. Smyrna, he said, was mainly Greek. Constantinople had been left to the Turks in order to conciliate Moslem senti- ment; Lord Curzon feared that it was a mistaken concession. After recalling the evil record of Turkish misrule and Turkey's unprovoked entry into the war, Lord Curzon reminded his critic that the new Turkey was larger than Spain, that the Turkish people would, for the first time, be given decent adminis- tration under Allied control, and that they would be freed from conscription. When the Treaty had beensigned and published in full, the House could judge whether it had not been unfairly c ondemned.
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