Yunanistan'ın İngiltere'ye olan savaş borcuna ilişkin rapor.

When at the Conference of Spa it was definitely decided that Greece would receive the extensive territorial concessions fixed by the Treaty of Sèvres, it was natural that, as had been mentioned in Lord Curzon's note (see above page 4-5), the conditions existed under which the charging of the value of the war material to Greece, would be just. Unfortunately the Treaty of Sèvres was not ratified. After the elections of November 1st, 1920, following upon which King Constantine reascended the throne, Greece, abandoned by her former Allies, suffered a military disaster in Asia Minor, which resulted in the Treaty of Lausanne, the uprooting of one and a half million Greeks from Asia Minor and Eastern Thrace and their flight on Greek territory. After such a catastrophe, could it possibly be supported that the conditions exist today under which alone, the value of the war material could, according to the agreement of 1918, be charged to Greece? The discharge of Greece from the obligations of paying the value of the war material in question would have been imperative even in case she bore the greater share of responsibility for the disaster of Asia Minor. But could such a contention really be made? We went to Asia Minor not on our own initiative but upon the invitation of the Big Allies and with a view to serving allied interests. That no long as -9-