During his recent hurried visit to Paris Tewfik Rushdi Bey,
the Turkish Minister for Foreign Affairs, signed with M. Tehiteherin a new political.Treaty. The Paris corres- pondent of the Times says that the Treaty is generally re- garded as an attempt by- the Soviet Government to give some Satisfaction to the Turks, who had obtained less support from Moscow on the Mosul question than they had been led to expect. It was not, of course, only the Soviet which failed to help Turkey. Any chance that Germany might support the intransigeance of Turkey disappeared in the friendly atmosphere of Locarno: The truth is that the Soviet, which is badly in need of money and, therefore, of successful trade, has been finding it extremely undesirable to stick pins at random into the Great Powers. The new Treaty Merely binds both Turkey and Russia to abstain from any political combination against the other party. This may be taken in effect as a declaration against the League of Nations.
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