MATERIALS FOR THE STUDY OF THE WORK AND THOUGHT
OF ARNOLD J. TOYNBEE
by Teodoro Tagliaferri (University of Naples Federico II)
No. 23 (August 27th, 2023)
WRITINGS ON THE EMPIRES IN WORLD HISTORY, XIX
Arnold J. Toynbee, The Smyrna Problem. Suggestions for a Special Administration, in «The Manchester Guardian», Tuesday, March 8, 1921, p. 6. Signed «From our Special Correspondent, Ushag, February 14», Special Article. See also https://www.academia.edu/63235514/Arnold_J_Toynbee_The_Smyrna_Problem
“As far as I can see, there are four solutions of the Smyrna problem in the field at present: (I) the Treaty of Sèvres, (II) a modification of the treaty in favour of the Greeks by an enlargement of the Smyrna zone, (III) the abolition of the zone and restoration of Ottoman sovereignty sans phrase, and (IV) establishment of a special administration, neither under Greek nor under Ottoman sovereignty, not merely in Smyrna city and the zone delimited by the treaty, but over greater part of that far larger area which constitutes Smyrna’s economic hinterland.”
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