Lausanne, the Great Powers and the Eastern Question
摘要
While the Lausanne Conference opened on 20 November 1922, and international negotiations began that would continue for many months until 24 July 1923, with a three-month break, the great powers took on the singular task of renegotiating a treaty that was less than three years old, the Treaty of Sèvres. From Sèvres to Lausanne, the path was not linear, punctuated by other intermediate conferences. The great powers were confronted with the final act of the famous Eastern Question. What were their positions at the twilight of this opus begun almost a century and a half earlier?