In France, M. Pierre Loti devoted one of his last articles to the treaty, which he called “the silliest of all the silly blunders of our Eastern policy.”[35] The map on p. 269 shows the area left to the Turks in Europe and in Asia Minor by the Treaty of Sèvres. There will be seen the territories of Mesopotamia under English mandate, those of Syria under French mandate, and those which have been added to Palestine and are practically under English control. There will also be seen the regions on which France and Italy, in virtue of the tripartite agreement signed on August 10, 1920, enjoy preferential claims to supply the staff required for the assistance of the Porte in organising the local administration and the police. The contracting Powers in that agreement have undertaken not to apply, nor to make or support applications, on behalf of their nationals, for industrial concessions in areas allotted to another Power. The map on p. 270 is a scheme of the territories lost by Turkey from 1699 down to the Sèvres Treaty; it shows that, by completing the dismemberment of Turkey, the treaty aimed at her annihilation. Footnotes: 26: _The Times_, March 26, 1920. 27: _The Times_, March 27, 1920: “Mesopotamia and the Mandate.” 28: The very words of this agreement were given by M. Pierre Loti in his book, _La Mort de notre chère France en Orient_, p. 153. 29: _Journal des Débats_, May 26, 1920. 30: _Daily Telegraph_, June 12, 1920. 31: _Matin_, June 12, 1920. 32: _La Croix_, July 14, 1920. 33: _Le Temps_, July 17, 1920. 34: Cf. _Ex-King Constantine and the War_, by Major J. M. Melas, p. 239. 35: The _Œuvre_, August 20, 1920. VII THE DISMEMBERMENT OF THE OTTOMAN EMPIRE The condition of affairs in the East now seemed all the more alarming and critical as the Allies, after dismembering Turkey, did not seem to have given up their plan of evicting the Turks. This policy, which had taken Armenia from Turkey, but had not succeeded in ensuring her a definite status, could only hurry on the Pan-Turkish and Pan-Arabian movements, drive them to assert their opposition more plainly, and thus bring them closer together by reinforcing Pan-Islamism.