The Washington herald., 1912-08-13
FOREIGN GOSSIP.

I should think that Sir Edward Grey.
:he British Foreign Secretary, will make
certain that there are going 10 De
reforms in Turkey, before granting the
request of the Ottoman Minister of the
Interior. Hadji Adj Bey. to lend him
some English officials as inspectors OF
his reforms II is far more likely that
the willy Hadjrs sudden love for Eng.
lishmen is the outcome Of the renewed
activity OF the Parliamentary Balkan
committee, who at last has discovered
that which seemed to others an open
secret, namely, that Turkish promises
are nothing more than pie crusts, only in
tended to throw sand In the eyes of the
diplomats. but not 10 satisfy the hopes or
the wretched people who are compelled to
submit to Turkish misgovernment
Sir Gerald Lowther, the British Am
bassador at Constantinople. through
whose official hands Hadji's request
must, go and by whom 1t will have to be
recommended. knows his Young Turks
by this time too well to favor a proposal
which under cover of British approval
will give them a free hand to continue
their insane policy Of trying to Turkify
people who are bringing the accumulated
hatred of some 800 years Of persecution
10 bear on their resistance to reforms"
forced upon them by bastinado and bay
onet.
1t is very gratifying to learn that Sir
Gerard will have nothing to do with
those who engineered the Turkish revo-
luton of 1905 in order to replace Sultan
Abdul Hamid upon the throne by them
selves. The critics of the British Ambas-
sador accuse him of drifting Instead OF
"a
ways from the first and kept them at
distance. After four years the Young
Turks are beginning to fear Sir Gerard
Lowther as the Old Turks used to fear
| Lord Stratford de Redcliffe.
The five British officers who are to be
lent TO the Turkish government for SER
vice in the gendarmerie are TO have tho
title of comma nder'' instead of ''advis-
er" To some extent this removes the
objection to their appointment. but hope
that their duties will he defined black
on white before they go out. as the Turks
have a way of slipping out Of engage
| ments Il any loophole for escape is left
! them. No British officer should be al
lowed 10 take service in the Turkish
| Gendarmerie unless he is given fun ex-
ecutive powers. which the officers appoint
ed under the Murzsteg programme never
We're allowed TO have.
l should say that Hadji Adj Bey Is
| as honest a mlI as any Mussulman can
be whose mission in this world Is to ex-
! terminate every 'infidel' who comes in
| his way. l am not sure that l can say
the same Of david Bey. the Israelits
| Minister OF Finance. a young man of
some thirty years Of age. who answers
! in diplomatic circles to the nickname OF
"Puss-in-Boots" He is just now indis-
! p, nsable to the Young Turks. but he is
! plunging Turkey deeper and deeper into
debt. and handing it over to money lend
! ers The Paris cash wells are dried up.
but david Bey still has A following in
Berlin. and as long as he can he will so
on filling the Young Turk money bags
till the inevitable crash comes.
No man was more fortunate in the
choice OF his parents than was Mr.. Win
stOn CuTchiII. the First Lord of the Brit
ish Admiralty. From his father, the late
\ Lord Randolph Churchill. he has GER
tainly inherited his political genius, while
to his mother. who married Mr.. Corn
wallis West in 1900. five years after the
death Ct her first husband ne owes the
remarkable energy and thoroughness
which have characterized his political
career.
!
one OF the most witty and brilliant wom-
en- of the present day: but l think that
! she is more than that. She possesses
/ such keen business acUmen and powers
| Of organization that Oscar Hammerstein,
/ the famous American Snowman. upon
visiting the great ShakespeaTean exhibit
! ton which Mrs. CORVALLIS West has
organized and called into life at Earls
| Court, described her the greatest lady
! hustler that ever came out OF Hustlers-
Vile" He added that she was fun
OF Ideas as a cake is full of plums.
| Mrs. George Cornwallis-West is not
one OF those women who are content 70
| pose as mere fgureheads in connection
with any schemes with which their names
may be associated. The manner in which.
years age. sne helped 10 establish the
| Primrose League. edited the Anglo-Saxon
Review and organized and fitted out the
hospital ship Maine. which was donated
! by American women in England 10 the
service of the army during the Boer war.
and went herself as an active worker in
! its wards are but three illustrations
I Of the way in which she may be interest
! ed.
| The Shakespeare festival at Earl
Court. however, provides the most strik-
ing illustration of her wonderful capabil-