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None the less, last week, President Mustafa Kemal Pasha of Turkey resolved not to trust too much to the diplomatic successes of Tewfik. Kemal, a man of the sword, ordered four Turkish army corps to mobilize for "maneuvers" which will take place in sectors adjacent to the natural points d'appui of an Italian expedition against Turkey.
A further angle to this polygon of international interests consists in the Anglo-Franco-Italian understanding supposed to have been arrived at by Sir Austen Chamberlain on behalf of Premier Briand of France with Premier Mussolini to the effect that France would be willing to relinquish to Italy her troublesome and expensive Syrian mandate. Presumably the high tension of resentment now kindling between Italy and France (TiME, Nov. 15) has scotched the possibility of this colonial transfer.
* Dr. Wellington Koo, Foreign Minister of China at Peking by sufferance or the Manchuriah and Pekingese bandit Chang Tso-lin, not only abrogated the treaty by refusing to renew it, but, according to despatches last week, also abrogated the extraterritoriality rights of Belgians in China. While Dr. Koo and even Chang Tso-lin are but self-styled representatives of "The Government of China" which has long been a fiction, their act in denouncing the Belgian treaty may serve as a precedent to Chinese statesmen when the 15 other similar treaties existing between the major nations and China begin to expire. The Chino-U. S. Treaty covering extraterritoriality expires in 1934.