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 CHAPTER XVI

THE TREATY OF SEVRES     154

Rauf Bey takes the Nationalist Deputies from Angora to Constantinople—India compels Mr. Lloyd George to leave Constantinople to the Turk and General Milne breaks up the Parliament, deporting Rauf and many of his colleagues to Malta—The Sevres Treaty and how Damad Ferid Pasha secured authority to sign it.

CHAPTER XVII

ANGORA     160

Fevzi, Rafet and Kiazim Karabekr Pashas and their military dictatorship under Kemal Pasha—The "Pontus" deportations—Mosul, the Kurds and the split in Islam—The Franco-Armenian Front in Cilicia, the Greek Front before Smyrna, and the Allied Front before Constantinople—How the broken parliament was reconstructed at Angora—Ferid's counter-revolution at Konia.

CHAPTER XVIII

TURKISH NATIONALISM     177

The Western tradition of government to which the Grand National Assembly was built—How Nationalism was created—Greek defeat at the Sakaria River—Peace with the French in Cilicia—How a civilian administration was begun at Angora while Fevzi Pasha was re-mobilizing and re-equipping the Turkish Armies.

CHAPTER XIX

SMYRNA, 1922     199

Allied efforts to hitch the Sevres Treaty to Turkish Nationalism—Greeks transfer troops from Smyrna to Eastern Thrace for a move on Constantinople and when Fethy Bey is refused a hearing in London, Fevzi Pasha launches his attack—The Turkish recovery of Smyrna—Mr. Lloyd George resigns and the Ottoman Sultan flees—Lausanne.

CHAPTER XX

THE REAL PROBLEM OF TURKISH NATIONALISM     219

Economic beginnings in the new Turkish State—Mustapha Kemal Pasha opens the Smyrna Congress—The Chester Concession a step from imperialism to law.

CHAPTER XXI

THE REBIRTH OF TURKEY     229