The papers of Monday announced that Lord Curzon's conver. rations
in Paris had been successful, and that the Allies had agreed upon the terms to offer to Kemal. The joint Note invites the Angora Government to attend a Conference at Venice, or elsewhere, to settle terms of peace. The Allies are " favour- able " to the Turkish claim to Thrace "as far as the line of the river Maritza, and Adrianople." The Angora Government, however, is required to undertake not to send either before or during the Conference troops into the zone which has been de- clared provisionally neutral, and not to cross the Straits. It is further proposed that the guardianship of the Straits and also of minorities, racial and religious, shall be entrusted to the League of Nations. If these conditions should be accepted, Great Britain, France and Italy would support the admission of Turkey to the League of Nations.
