23 DECEMBER 1922, page 1

The Chief Points Of The Allied Plan For The Straits,

which will now go through, are :—(1) An International Commission, under the League of Nations, with a Turkish President, to control the Straits. (2) Free passage for the......

For Ourselves, We Feel Very Little Interest In The So-called

Freedom of the Straits, except as regards merchant vessels. We most sincerely hope that no British Govern- ment will ever be so rash as to try to send a fleet of war- ships into......

News Of The Week.

T HE chief event of the week is without question the progress made at the Lausanne Conference. Though the sittings are not ended, the crucial point, the Freedom of the Straits,......

Unless The Reports From Lausanne Give A Totally Wrong...

of what took place, the chief Russian delegate did his best to sterilize the Conference and to stir up warlike feeling. The Bolshevist State, in spite of inter- national......

Lord Curzon Is To Be Very Warmly Congratulated Upon The

way in which he has represented and maintained the interests not only of this country but of peace and reason at Lausanne. His has been an almost daily triumph, and he deserves......

We Had Not Only Backed The Wrong Horse In Greece,

but we had backed it in a way so devious and reckless that when the double clad* came, in the rout of the Greek troops and in the dismissal of Mr. Lloyd George, first by the......

An Ideal Christmas Present. There Is No Better Christmas...

than a year's sub- scription to the " Spectator." The " Spectator " will be sent post free from its offices, 13 York Street, Covent Garden, London, W.C. 2, to any address in the......