The Example of Turkey The visit of the Turkish Foreign
Minister, Dr. Aras, to Baghdad, and the probability that he may continue his journey to Teheran and attempt by mediation to settle the long-standing difference between Iran and Iraq over the waters of the Shatt-el-Arab, at the mouth of the Tigris and Euphrates, suggests that Asiatic States are finding it easier to set their relations on a rational basis than Europe does. Turkey, in particular (which is, of course, partly European rad partly Asiatic) has set an admirable example of international, -...onduct in the last dozen years. In 1926 she accepted the findings of the League of Nations Council on the Turco-Iraq frontier. In 1932 she joined the League of Nations. In 1936 she raised in proper juridical manner the question of modifying various provisions of the post-War Treaty of Lausanne and got what she wanted by decision of a conference at Montreux. She has played a constructive part in the develop- ment of the Balkan Entente, and now her Foreign Minister is attempting an equally constructive task in the Middle East. In the light of this political record an article on the spirit of Kemalism on a later page will be read with particular interest.
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