767.68119/395: Telegram
The Special Mission at Lausanne to the Secretary of State
[Received 10:05 p.m.]
231. Prospects appear slightly brighter. Curzon has consented to remain until Sunday, and it is our belief that as long as there is a chance of agreement he will prolong his stay here or permit Sir Eyre Crowe to carry on. There is ground for believing that the Turks do not wish for a rupture, and would be glad to find some settlement not at variance with their ideas of Turkey’s full autonomy and sovereignty and not reviving the old juridical immunities of foreigners in Turkey. Ismet has appealed to Child to [Page 966] try informally to devise a settlement on those principles, and Child has today arranged to have Curzon meet Ismet in private interview.
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