LAUSANNE TREATY.

Press, Volume LXIII, Issue 18904, 20 January 1927, Page 9

LAUSANNE TREATY.

- ♦ U.S.A. NOT RATIFYING. (BT CABLE—?K?BS ABBOCUTIOK—COPISIOHT.) (AUSTRALIAN AHD 5.1!. CABLE, ASSOCIATION.) WASHINGTON, January 18. The Senate on Tupsday refused to ratify the Lausanne Treaty, re-eßtab-lishing diplomatic and commercial relar lions with Turkey. [The Treaty of Peace between Turr key and the Allied Powers (following tha Cfreat War) was signed at Lqur sanng on July %it,\\, J9§3, and was" sub; §pquent]y ratified by fill the (signatories except thg United StftteSt The Treaty defined jurjfey's ngw l)puud,aries and, prpyided for s rPYJsiqn pf th,p system on which foreigners were busit ness in Turkey, a system which rfisembjgj that pbtajning in Pjijna tp= day, Wh§B the Treaty "camp up' fpr rat: ifieatiqn. in tjje American gpnatp pn Der eember g3r<l ]ast, gpnatPF gjng, of Utah, created, a senjfitiqn fey declaring that America signed, the Treaty at the instigattgn of powerful oil %n4 tPbscco interp§tl who lfad just obtained big pent cessions *n Turkey,. l\o said, 3t the beginning pf the kau.sanng Cpnfer? ence America had held out for the lib-, pration of Armenia and tho protection pf Christians in Turkey, but had; aban= doned tliib attitude, owing tq pressure by financiers. "The Lausanne Treaty,'» he "is the low tide of Christian diplomacy §jnpe the Qqngress pf Vienna. It is" a challenge to American honour and ideals and to Christianity.' Senator King demanded an enquiry into tlie part played hy pi} magnates in tho signing pf thp Treaty.]