أوراق بقلم كرزون بشأن الشرق الأدنى والأوسط [و‎‎١‎٦‎٣] (٣٤٨/٣٢٥)

[This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty s Government.j
[March 1.]
TURKEY.
Section 1.
CONFIDENTIAL.
No. 1.
E 2217/1/44
The Marquess Curzon of Kedleston to the Marquess of Crewe (Paris).
My Lord^ Foreign Office, March 1, 1923.
WITH reference to your Excellency’s despatch No. 482 of the 26th Kebruary, I
have to request that you will inform the President du Conseil that I have carefully
considered his note of the 22nd February regarding the present validity of the pact of
the 5th September, 1914, and that I find it impossible to accept his argument that the
resumption of hostilities between Greece and Turkey in Asia Minor brought that
agreement to an end, in spite of the fact that one of the enemies of France and Great
Britain in the world war has not yet concluded peace with them. As, howevei,
M. Poincare must have fully weighed the possible consequences of his grave decision
and the arguments with which I have already endeavoured to controveit it, it seems
useless to continue this correspondence, and His Majesty s Government must reserve to
themselves the right to take such decisions and such action as the new situation arising
from M. Poincare s statement may render necessary in the future.
2. Your Excellency should at the same time express to M. Poincare the confident
hope of His Majesty’s Governmeut that the friendship of the two peoples and, in
particular, their co-operation in settling the affairs of the Near Last maj : continue.
I am, &c.
CURZON OF KEDLESTON.
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