NEAR EAST: Ismet and the Open Door

A bombshell was exploded under the placid forms of Sir Horace Rumbold and General Pelle, British and French representatives at Lausanne, when Ismet Pasha announced that concessions prior to 1914, which he had consented to confirm in the Concessions Protocol, invaded the Chester concessions, and that his agreement must be reconsidered.

He has been clever enough to enroll on his side tthe able American observer, Mr. Joseph Grew, in the name of the sacred principle of the " open door." To gain previous points from the Allies he had confirmed the monopolistic concessions...

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