We do not, however, expect this. We believe that the
over- whelming success of Kemal has called France strictly to attention, and that she will recognize that there will never be a settlement unless in the new negotiations she keeps a united front with Britain and Italy from the beginning. Nevertheless, the situation is alarming enough. There are rumours that the Greeks and Bulgars have come into conflict in Thrace and that Serbia is mobilizing. We do not believe these rumours, but they have their significance. We must trust to general weariness as much as to anything else for preventing a new European war between Turkey and Bulgaria on the one side, and the Greeks, the Yugo- Slays, and the Rumanians on the other. We must now give a summary of the principal events.