Signor Nitti, the Italian Prime Minister, has been staying in
London during the week, and he, Mr. Lloyd George, Mr. Balfour, Mr. Bonar Law, Lord Curzon, and Sir Gordon Hewart went to Paris on Thursday. We must really hope that at last the
Turkish and Italian questions will be settled. It will be re- membered that in a recent speech Mr. Lloyd George declared that it was useless for Italy to send a representative unless he had full powers to act. As regards Turkey, the chief difficulty is whether the Turks -shall- be allowed- to stay in Europe. Mr. Lloyd George the other day said that the porter of the gate —the Dardanelles gate—had been false to his trust and could never be employed again. That might mean that the Turk is to be thrust out of Europe, in Mr. Gladstone's phrase, "bag " and baggage." On the other hand, it is suggested that in order to appease Moslem sentiment, which is represented as a danger to the British Empirein India and elsewhere, the Sultan should be allowed to retain a simulacrum of sovereignty at Constantinople, while the reality of Turkish government would exist somewhere on the other side of the Bosphorus.
