7 OCTOBER 1922, Page 2

What we must do is to set up all the

safeguards we can for Christian minorities everywhere. M. Venizelos, in an eloquent letter to the Times of Wednesday, proposed that the Allies should themselves occupy Eastern Thrace at least until the final peace is signed. We cannot see, however, that anything would be gained by that except the probability of driving the Turks into a new contumacy and perhaps endangering peace altogether. The Turks are unfortunately able to say with truth that we have already helped the Greeks too much. They are not likely to forget that, though K Venizelos is received by Ministers in London, the delegate of the Angora Nationalists when he came to London was turned away without a single interview.