أوراق بقلم كرزون بشأن الشرق الأدنى والأوسط [ظ‎‎٩‎٣] (٣٤٨/١٨٦)

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Art. 231.
Art. 239.
Art. 262.
Art. 317..
Art. 65 and ff.
Art. 84.
Treaty
between Allies
and Greece.
Arts. 14
and 15.
Art. 231.
Financial Commission .
(i.) Honorary president to be Turkish. •
(ii.) Turkish delegate to have vote on all internal questions and consultative
voice in questions specially affecting Allies. .
(iii.) Parliament to have right to modify budget; but if such modifications
disturb financial equilibrium, budget must be submitted to commission again.
Concessions.
Turkish Government to be free to grant concessions, but Minister of Finance
first to decide with Financial Commission as to desirability of such concessions.
Foreign Post Offices.
Possibility of suppression.
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“ Nationals."
Definition of term might be modified.
Annex II.
Proposals made by me at Pans in Jane 1921.
Smyrna.
Lord Curzon proposed and M. Briand agreed to :
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1 . An autonomous province under Turkish sovereignty.
2. A Christian Governor.
3 . A mixed gendarmerie under Allied officers.
4. Withdrawal of Greek troops as soon as the gendarmerie was in working order.
Thrace.
Lord Curzon proposed :
1 . Enforcement of minority provisions about Adrianople and the Moslem
population.
2. Demilitarisation of an area north-west of the Chatalja lines.
In reply, M. Briand proposed an international Thrace under international
gendarmerie Lord Curzon was unable to accept this. M. Briand then proposed to
revert to the commission of enquiry, but the question of Thrace was reserved.
M. Briand was not prepared, in any circumstances, to recognise King
Constantine.
Financial Com m ission.
It was agreed that a means of control might be found which, while effective,
would not offend the Turks.
Tripartite Agreement.
Lord Curzon suggested the possibility of modifying or abolishing the agreement.
M. Briand concurred that French and Italian rights might be secured by a formula
less offensive to Turkev, and it was agreed that a self-denying arrangement between
Great Britain and France might satisfy Italy. M. Briand hinted at British
concessions in Mesopotamia.
Lord Curzon insisted that the protection of minorities must not be allowed to
lapse. . . .
The Italian Ambassador made reservations on all points, and especially as to the
Tripartite Agreement.
Greece refused the Allied offer of mediation. No proposals on the above lines
were therefore ever made to her or to Turkey.
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