ABSTRACT
The year 1922 was a fateful year - year at the crossroads. Greece took the wrong turning, which ended in a disaster. Early in 1922, the scales began to tilt in the Nationalists' favor. Signor Tuozzi, the Italian emissary, returning from Angora, briefed Sir Horace Rumbold about his impressions. Mustafa Kemal's position, he told Rumbold, "is stronger than ever. As president of the national assembly and commander in chief of Nationalist forces, his power is that of a dictator". The Nationalists' policy was to make separate agreements with the three allied powers, thus leaving the Greeks isolated. They were immensely elated by the Franklin-Bouillon Agreement and counted on the French to support them at the forthcoming peace conference. Signor Tuozzi thought that the Nationalists were aiming to achieve the complete territorial, economic, and financial independence of Anatolia and that no compromise with them would be possible on this score, particularly with regard to Smyrna.
