True It Is That Lord Curzon Was Apt To Address
other human beings in the manner of "the Divinity addressing black-beetles." Yet he was always careful to make it clear (a) that he regarded black-beetles as entertaining little......
Two Names At Such A Moment Should Be Recalled To
grate- ful remembrance: the names of Curzon and of Venizelos. Did Ismet Pasha, now InOnii, I wonder, allow his mind the other night to ffick back across the years ; to meet......
It Was This Mixture Of Supremacy And Boyishness Which, In
spite of their interminable wrangles, impressed itself upon Ismet Pasha and his staff. "Evidemment," Riza Nour once said to me, in his Anatolian French, "Ler' Kerzoon n'est pas......
It May Be That I Have A Professional Prejudice Against
sudden diplomacy. I confess that I do not regard as de- pendable agreements which have not had many years in which to solidify and to mature. The foundations of this present......
Moreover, Lord Curzon Would Vary His Moods Of Con- Temptuous
and sombre magnitude with the March sunshine of boisterous geniality. I recollect an occasion, in 1920, when he was visited in London by M. Stamboliski, the Agrarian Prime......
True It Is That The First Lausanne Conference Ended In
a dramatic rupture. Yet assuredly it was one of the most valuable diplomatic failures that there has ever been. Curzon arrived at Lausanne to face a Turkish delegation......
People And Things
By HAROLD NICOLSON T HE Turkish agreement has been welcomed as a fine diplomatic performance. It is more than that. It represents the integration of those natural interests,......
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