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tions, the division of the terri- tory into the various constitu- encies and the apportioning of seats to the different communi- ties have all been the cause of interminable discussion and dis- agreement. The present pro- posal is that the Turks should have 22 seats in the Assembly, while the Arabs, who are the ma- jority element of the population, and the other minorities between [them should share 18 seats. This, the Arab leaders insist, is а de- manifest iniquity. They mand at least equal representa- All communications intended for tion with the Turks. Above all they ask that the Governor of publication should be addressed to the Sanjak of Alexandretta and the Editor, and be accompanied by of Antioch should be an Arab. On the face of it the claims of the Writer's Name and Address, the Arabs are no more than just.

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are ready to forget so easily that barely a generation ago they lorded it over Alexandretta as they pleased. Neither party seems willing to yield any ground in the dispute. Rioting and hloodshed has been rampant and as a precautionary measure the Military authorities have taken over control of the Sanjak and declared Martial Law. There is every possibility that unless the disturbances are nipped in the bud and the grievances redress-

Hong Kong, Wednesday, June 22, 1938. ed Alexandretta may prove as difficult à proposition to France as Palestine is to Britain.

THE SANJAK

In the welter of detail regard-League Mania

ing serious events in other parts

of the world, the friction which

has recently developed in the The amusing series of pictures Near East has captured little [in Punch illustrating the British public attention. Nevertheless, character has not yet, dealt ade- unless France moves very cauti-quately at all events with our ously in her proceedings deciding tendency to form associations or on the the future of the Sanjak ter-leagues or institutes ritory, she is likely to have upon slightest provocation. Hardly a her hands very quickly a pro-week passes without the launch- blem as grave as Britain is facing of some new body, with in- ing in Palestine. The future of fluential patrons, an impressive the autonomous Sanjak of Alex-council coruscating with titles andretta has frequently been the and degrees, an attractive pro- cause of dispute between France gramme of propaganda-and an and Turkey. On May 30 last appeal for funds. year what was thought at the Anyone who is awaiting_re- time to be a final settlement of tirement in the Old Country is the points at issue between the assured of ample scope for volun- two countries was arrived at by tary effort which will keep his the League Council at Geneva. ageing arteries elastic. There The terms of the settlement were are some public men who sit on solemnly accepted by M. Yvon the executives of so many of Delbos, on behalf of France, and these bodies that one wonders by Dr. Rushdi Aras, on behalf of how they can find time for lunch, Turkey. The main points of golf and the other essential conflict cleared away were the functions of life. There is not frontier and the language ques- a rich man, however opulent, who tions. It was impossible to con- would not be beggared if he as-

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party on either point. The re-mands for subscriptions and sult was a

compromise. Tur-donations. kish was unconditionally to be Only a few weeks ago a Na- an official language of the San- tional Institute of Economic and jak. Arabic was also to be an Social Research was formed to official language on condition collect and collate information on that elementary education was all sorts of subjects about every imparted in the predominant lan- country in the world. It has been guage of each area. So far the quickly followed by an organisa- conflicting elements in the tion, not yet baptised, for study- Sanjak were apparently ready to ing the social relations of science. be reconciled. There was jubila Its purpose is to provide a "cool tion in Ankara and Istanbul scientific study of the problems

when the news of the settlement which confront civilisation." was circulated. France as the Just that!

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