“Thirdly, the military powers of occupation.
“Fourthly, the diplomatic representatives of France, Britain, and Italy, deliberating in a kind of council with the military and naval commanders of the Franco-Anglo-Italian forces.”
With them would be—
“Fifthly, the Inter-Allied Commissioners of Control and Military Organisation.
“Sixthly, the Commission of Finance.
“Seventhly, the Council of the Ottoman Public Debt.
“Eighthly, the consuls’ jurisdictions.”
After going over all the objections raised by the coexistence of these various bodies, whose powers would encroach upon each other or would be exactly similar, and the impossibility that foreign agents accredited to the Sultan should hold such functions, the memorandum opposed the following reasons to the decisions of the Conference:
“First, the draft of the treaty does not in any way institute an international judicial and political organisation of the Straits.
“Secondly, it institutes a political and military power on behalf of some States, attended with all the international risks pertaining to it.