The Kemalists. or the Nationalists. as they are called. avowed their purpose to drive the Greek Arn from Asia Minor. where it is seeking to protect the Greek interests in the vilayets of Aidin and Brussa and to subject the more than. 1.100.000 Greeks residing within such territory to the degrading. oppressive. and brutal tyranny of Turkish rule. The treaty of Sevres. as stated in the. resolution which I offered and to which I have called the attention of the Senate. provides for ftll and complete protection of life. and liberty to all inhabitants of Turkey. without regard to birth. race. nationality. or religion. The allied nations who wrote this treaty knew that within Asiatic Turkey. as its lines had existed for many years. there were a large number of.Armenian Christians and Nestorians--who. as Senators know. are Christiansand also 1.700.000 Greeks. At the peace conference at Paris in 1919 the undisputed evidence showed that the Hellenic nation was distributed substantially as follows: Four million three hundred thousand inhabitants within the kingdom of Greece. as its boundaries were then prescribed. 151.000 in northern Epirus and Albania. 731.000 in Thrace. including those within the city of Constantinople. 43.000 in Bulgaria. not including the many thousands who were annexed to Bulgaria by the treaty of Bucharest. 2.000.000approximatelyin Asia Minor. 102.000 in the Dodecanesus. 235.000 in the island of Cyprus. In addition there were more than 1.000.000 distributed in various lands.