The only good news from Lausanne is that the Allies
do appear to be working together. But that, important as it is, is only a negative advantage. As for any positive hopes of bringing the Turks to accept the Allies' condi- tions, they seem to grow fainter every day. The founda- tion upon which all the earlier hopes of converting the Turks were built was that they would in the end have to accept the main Allied proposals, such as those for setting up non-Turkish Courts as a substitute for those under the present Capitulations, if they wanted to raise loans and to trade generally with the West since nobody would live under undiluted Turkish law and . police. As Lord Curzon put it, the Turkish delegates, if they remained obdurate, must be prepared to reduce their country to a state of isolation in the wilds of Central Asia Minor, cut off from all communication with the civilized world. But it now becomes apparent that this is exactly what a party, and probably a dominant party, at Angora wants to do.
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