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One is hard put to catch the historical mood of the moment in a world in which the only quiet and unchanging spot is the no man's land between the Maginot and Siegfried lines. Even that may no longer be true after some time. Indeed, a great many things may be changed soon. But some things are certain: returning to Turkey after an absence that coincided with the outbreak of the war and the signature of the Anglo-French-Turkish pact, the article author finds that the country has taken a turn in a very definite direction. Turkey today is not neutral. It is, like Italy and will be perhaps for as long as Italy-non-belligerent. To one who has been following developments in Turkey during the past few years there is nothing startling in this fact, particularly when one remembers that Turkey is pro-Ally but not anti-Soviet Union. Interesting revelations of the new mood in Turkey are found in the daily press.

The article presents information on various political developments around the world. The U.S. President Thomas Woodrow Wilson has received a note from Turkey. But Wilson's lips have been sealed hitherto by consideration for the oppressed races exposed to wanton brutality of their Turkish rulers. The Taryba, or State Council of Lithuania, elected under the control of the German army of occupation, chose as King Duke William of Urach. But the German government has declared that Lithuania had no right to select kings without consulting Prussia, and that the Taryba had been improperly elected and did not represent the population.

This article focuses on the political and social developments in various parts of the world. The notion which the Tory papers in England are industriously preaching, too, that the Land League teachings have caused the violence of the past three years, is equally absurd. The violence began in its present form 130 years ago. The Turkish Commissioner has arrived in Egypt, the Sultan's efforts to have the conference given up before he went having failed. The Powers refuse to give up the conference, and the Commissioner is to do the best he can in the meantime.

Focuses on the Greece-Turkey program of the U.S. Opinion of Senator Edwin Johnson on the U.S. foreign policy toward Turkey and Greece; Details of the military requirements of Turkey; Discussion of the effectiveness of Turkish army against the Russians; Information on the Red Army mountain brigades, which so distinguished themselves against the Germans and Rumanian mountain divisions in the Caucasus and Carpathians.

This article discusses the matter related to international politics. Russia's restaurant of its treaty of friendship with Turkey and its promise of complete neutrality should Turkey be attacked and obliged to enter the war, represents another cautious but significant-move by Moscow to check `the German advance towards the Dardanelles. In consenting to the passage through the blockade of two ships laden with flour for France the British government seems to have been motivated chiefly by a desire to please Washington. Its position is that this shipment is exceptional and that the policy of including unoccupied France within the blockaded area must continue.

This article presents information about political developments around the world as of October 28, 1939. No week since the period of pre-war crisis has produced a bigger crop of guesses and contradictory rumors along with some open confessions of total confusion. Great Britain's diplomatic victory in Turkey threatens to be offset by a colossal blunder in British policy toward India. Under other circumstances, the story of the "secret letter" sent by Colonel Edward M. House to Lloyd George might be dismissed as a joke at the expense of the Honorable J. Thorkelson of Montana, General Moseicy's and the Bund's favorite Congressman.

This article focuses on the developments in various parts of the world. The base uses to which party managers are capable of putting culture, when they get a secure hold of it, is well illustrated by Mr. Cabot Lodge's article in the volume issued for campaign purposes under the title, "The Republican Party-Its History and Policies." The contrast between Russia and Turkey in their railroad policy is strongly marked. While Turkey controls fertile districts in which there seems to be a fair prospect of profitable traffic, no effort is made to develop them. Russia, on the contrary, is rapidly reaching out into Central Asia, and is coming dangerously near the Indian frontier of England.

The article presents information on various developments taking place across the world as of October 8, 1908. The revolution in Turkey came as an unwelcome surprise for the small States in Balkan. They had been waiting impatiently for Turkish misrule and anarchy to hasten the break-up of the Empire. Bulgaria has been greatly disappointed with the prospect of rejuvenated Turkey. Bulgaria was not prepared for an Ottoman revolution that had for its main objects the reorganization of the Empire on the basis of liberal institutions and a policy of conciliation towards the warring nationalities in Macedonia.

Presents an interview with Archbishop Makarios, exiled President of Cyprus. Removal of Makarios from power with a coup d'etat engineered by the Greek military; Source of tension between the Greek and Turkish Cypriots; Support of the new Greek civilian regime to Makarios; Terms and conditions of Makarios to return to Cyprus; Comment of Makarios that he would not involve himself in any serious negotiations until the Turkish forces that invaded the island in July are withdrawn to the positions they held; Demand of Makarios that the Turks should permit the Greek Cypriot refugees to return to areas occupied by Turkish troops; Condition of Makarios that Greek officers appointed by the Athens junta to command the Cyprus national guard should be pulled out of the island; Statement of Makarios that American government or any American agent was not involved in the coup against him; Views of Makarios on the idea of guerrilla activity.

Focuses on the apprehensions for the invasion of Cyprus by Turkey. Incidents of mass slaughter, rape and pillage; Views that ethnic harmony in Cyprus has been shattered due to the struggle against British colonial rule waged mainly by the Greek Cypriots; Tensions in the pluralistic society brought to the fore when the British, recruited Turks as policemen and administrative officials; Revenge of the Greeks by excluding the Turks from economic development projects and generally treating them as second-class citizens; Outbreak of clashes; State of political confusion; Turks are using refugees and captives as bargaining counters; Turkish Cypriots in the south are in a predicament similar to the Greeks in the north; Emphasis on the need for international diplomacy to solve the problems in small states. -.

Focuses on the socio-political issues around the world. Views that to negotiate a treaty between Turkey, Great Britain, France and Italy will be hindered by demands of Turks and getting Greeks out of Thrace; Opinion that New York voters must choose ex-governor Alfred E. Smith; Revelation of the drift and conflict of political forces in Germany; Possibility for agreement between the shop craft union and the management of Erie Railroad to end the ongoing strike; Consequences of the disorganization of coal transportation in the U.S.; Failure of efforts to check the traffic in opium products due to refusal of the U.S. to cooperate with the League of Nations; Claim that the representatives of the Department of Justice converted to their own use large stocks of liquor seized in the enforcement of prohibition laws; Announcement made by New York's Neighborhood Playhouse that it will not produce any play this year.

This article focuses on the political developments in the U.S. Henry Ford's coming out for U.S. President Calvin Coolidge has mightily stirred the political dovecotes. It is variously held to insure Mr. Coolidge's nomination, to defeat Senator James Weldon Johnson and to clear the road for him, to drive Senator Robert Marion La Follette out of the race and greatly to encourage his candidacy, it its a defeat for the liberals and a victory for them. There are two points that interest us especially in the furor that has developed over proposed treaty with Turkey and the effort to prevent its ratification by the Senate. Oklahoma citizens seem to possess an inordinate desire to help the Avenging Angel with his job. By their record of 2,000 whippings in a year they were recently in the news from Peking to Cape Town and from Punta Arenas to Nome.

The article discusses world politics. Turkey is left to settle that with the bondholders and it is understood that they will agree to payment in French francs. The Armenians are entirely forgotten, but Allied concessions are the subject of a protocol. This treaty is as great a triumph for the Turks as the Anatolian campaign. The United States Coal Commission's report frankly recognizes that such a limited natural monopoly as coal cannot be treated as a private concern of the few owners but must be supervised by the government. That marks forward progress. The commission suggests "the creation of a governmental authority with power to require financial aid operating reports, to prescribe uniform accounting, and to determine the conditions on which coal may be shipped in interstate commerce." The British Government does not seem to find its experimental diplomacy by catechism very successful.

The article presents news related to world politics. The wheels of diplomacy continue to move with leisure in the East as elsewhere. If relief work shows the same inertia the 30,000 Anatolian refugees now herded in Constantinople will in a few months be reduced by disease to 15,000. Former U.S. President Woodrow Wilson's telegram to the Governor of Colorado urging the appointment of a personal friend as United States Senator puts the Governor in an extremely embarrassing position. An interchange of journalists between Great Britain and the United States has long been urged by The Nation, among others, and has recently been advocated anew by W. Lints Smith of the London Times.

This article presents information related to socio-political issues in various parts of the world. Greece seems destined, by the sword and by diplomacy, to lose most of the lands of her aspirations. Asia Minor and Thrace have no sooner "gone Turkish" than Italy, with no better apparent excuse than the weakness of Greece, denounces the Italo-Greek agreement of 1920, and announces that she will hold the Dodecanese Islands in the AElig;gean Sea. Meanwhile even England seems to have abandoned her erstwhile good intention of returning the Greek island of Cyprus to the Greeks.

The article comments on the Treaty of Sèvres. On June 16 a French battalion was captured entire only twelve miles from Adana, and the Turkish siege settled down in earnest. The principal defending force was an Armenian one of some 1,300 infantry and 80 cavalry, organized by an American Armenian serving as an officer in the French foreign legion. Its rifles and uniforms were bought by public subscription among the Armenians themselves, and their business at first was to police Adana. But Adana was still a Turkish city with a large Turkish population, and murders of Armenians were of daily occurrence.

The article discusses issues related to world politics. It also focuses on a recent publication related to French General Baron Thiebault. A week ago the Eastern question seemed about to receive an answer, but no one is wiser as to the final solution. Letters from England say that the British Government was decided to go ahead even if alone, and force a solution securing the reforms and the safety of the Christians of Turkey. The question, however, which appears subject to an adjournment, is one of those, which must inevitably be answered. The Turks of today must expiate the victories of their fathers and restore to Christian Europe what the fathers took from it; so decides historical justice, and people believe that Turkey will for no long time sign protocols as a European Power. A protest must be made against the new fashion of publishing memoirs piecemeal, one volume after another, at intervals often so long that the reader has some difficulty in finding the thread, which he was obliged to abandon. This method may be advantageous to the publisher, but it is rather irritating to the reader. Who would have thought, when the first volume of the memoirs of General Thiebault appeared, that so many others would follow it?

The article presents information on recent socio-political developments from across the world. U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt's diffident announcement prior to the first Chicago Convention that he was the only Progressive who could win, takes on a ghastly hue in the light of the formation of the Wilson National Progressive Republican League by such men as Rudolph Spreckels of California and John J. Blame of Wisconsin. These men have been supporters of La Follette, and would therefore presumably prefer to vote for a Republican over a Democrat. Rumors of peace negotiations between Italy and Turkey persist, and despite official and semi-official contradictions, it seems more than probable that a measure of credence may be attached to them. The recent "conversations" in Switzerland, one is informed, were entirely unauthorized; but so were some of the conversations that preceded the settlement of the Russo-Japanese war. The best argument for peace is that neither side has anything to gain by prolonging the struggle.

This article focuses on various political issues around the world. Governor Charles Evans Hughes's speech at Youngstown on Saturday throws no more light on his opinions than was afforded by his speech on national issues at the New York Republican Club last winter. Honest political soothsayers can give but one forecast as a result of the Vermont election. The presence of the Turkish consul-general at a Zionist mass meeting in this city may be indicative of the new fraternal feeling among the different races of Turkey that has come with the new regime, without meaning that the outlook of the success of the Zionist movement has changed for the better. The protest which the Swiss Democrats addressed to the Bunderat, calls attention to the most important problem now before international tribunals.

This article presents information related to political issues around the world. Striking evidence of the "state of nerves" into which the United States has got is furnished by the number of ordinarily calm and cool-headed men who are now going about filled with unconcealed apprehension. Talk of war between Russia and Turkey over the Persian boundary dispute is taken in some quarters seriously. The quarrel is of nearly a year's standing. Difference of opinion between Turkey and Persia as to the frontier line in the north was followed by what Persia has designated as invasion of her territory by Turkish troops.

Presents letters to the editor referencing articles and topics discussed in the previous issues. Dismissal of U.S. Attorney General Harry M. Daugherty by U.S. President Calvin Coolidge; "The Problem of the Smith Candidacy," published in the March 19 issue; Assessment of the role of the U.S. in the Treaty of Lausanne with Turkey; Opinion that the U.S. cannot get Turkey to accept the capitulations and to grant territory for an Armenian home without the use of force.

Focuses on the division of Poland between Germany and Soviet Union. Description of the area under Soviet Union and Germany; View that Germany and Soviet Union have taken those parts of Poland that they least need, that is, Germany, heavily industrialized and requiring food-stuffs, gets the industrialized section of Poland and Soviet Russia, which has vast quantities of farmland but is short on industry, gets the agricultural part of the country, with a few factories in the new Central Industrial Region; Statement that German dictator Adolf Hitler has paid a steep price for immobilizing Soviet Union in terms of his own ambition; Reference to the non-aggression treaty between Germany and Soviet Union; Talk of an offer by Soviet Union to guarantee Romania and Turkey against an attack by Germany in exchange for an agreement not to let any belligerent use Dardanelles.

Various good people, especially church people, in the U.S. have been voluble in their denunciation of any kind feelings the State Department may have had toward Turkey in 1927. They say that Turkey should never be recognized by the U.S. and they base their plea upon the fact that the Turks have murdered so many of Christians, the Armenians. The real reason for these massacres involves not a question of religion but of brass beds. The Turk has an inordinate desire for brass beds. But the Turk finds it difficult to gather together the price of the beautiful shiny bed of his desire. There is always one person in his vicinity who has money and that is the nearest Armenian.

This article presents news briefs related to the political developments in various parts of the world. The most notable feature of the struggle in the Somme region is the promptness with which the British, after checking heavy German counter-attacks, have resumed the offensive. In reply to renewed requests from the State Department for a settlement of the ancient Petrolite case, the Austro-Hungarian Government on July 21 asked, through Ambassador for further information on the matter. The nomination of Abram I. Elicits to be Ambassador to Turkey was sent to the Senate last week.

Events in other areas of the war have been dwarfed by comparison with the importance of the attack on the Dardanelles, Turkey, by a combined British and French fleet, under the command of Vice-Admiral Sackville H. Carden. Apart from the consequences, military and political, which a successful outcome to this attack may be expected to produce, the operations themselves are among the few spectacular incidents of the war. To force the passage of the Dardanelles, if that were possible, is so obvious a stratagem, and would lead so obviously to consequences immensely favorable to the Allies, that the question has been freely asked why the attempt has not been made before.

This article focuses on the political developments in various parts of the world. The Nicaraguan and Colombian treaties have been before the Foreign Relations Committee of the Senate during the past week. The French Government issued regulations, enforcing the law passed last March, which will seriously affect foreigners, and particularly Americans, residing in France. The tension between Greece and Turkey, which has been sensibly relaxed by the conciliatory tone of the Turkish note sent in reply to the protest of Greece against the treatment accorded to her subjects in the Ottoman Empire.