From The Times: January 17, 1925Lieutenant-Colonel JHM Cornwall, who has recently returned from Constantinople, lectured last night before the Central Asian Society, at the Royal United Service Institution, Whitehall, on “Turkey To-day”. Speaking of the exchange of populations carried out last year under the Treaty of Lausanne, Lieutenant-Colonel Cornwall said the most striking thing in Turkey to-day was the alteration in the economic state of the country. The Greeks who had been sent back to Greece were the merchants, shopkeepers, cobblers, carpenters, and blacksmiths. Greece had made a net gain of 1,000,000 industrious people which Turkey had lost. The population of what was now Turkey had

Source: The Times January 17, 2025 00:06 UTC