Note 34 — Chapter XII · THE STRUGGLE FOR THE BAGDAD RAILWAY IS RESUMED
Reading edition
Supra, pp. 245–249, 325–326. It was the Turkish contention that the Black Sea concessions were invalid for the following reasons: they were negotiated by a government for the acts of which the National Assembly assumed no responsibility; they never had been ratified by the Turkish Parliament; the French bankers had not fulfilled all the conditions upon which the concessions were predicated.