The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-09-20
SOME NEW BOOKS.
of Foreigners I'm Turkey.

tendencies and the utopian theorizing
- Assistant Professor PHILIP MARSHALL
Brown in his monograph on Foreigners
IN THrkcU. Their Jurtdicni status
princeton Univ rsity Press), his sub
irct has timely interest, and the news
paper reader following the reports OF
Sdrkey's nbrcgation Of the special rights
OF foreigners may find i'm his essay facts
nat will furnish foundation for a clearer
understanding % the crowdlng events
~ the day His academic thesis rests
Upon such actual diplomatic experience
or observation as IS implied In service as
secretary 10 the American Embassy at
Corstautinoplc In 1907 and 1908, and
previously as second secretary In the
legation from 1901 to 1903
Assistant Professor Brown considers
Il very greatly to Turkeys credit that
she should have granted any extra
territorial rights at all, evidence OF a
moro rnlichtt nd and liberal interpreta-
ton OF the Law Of nations than has
been granted in Europe Toward her
nom Muslcm subjects. whether from a
genuine spirit II tolerance. from states
manship or from hard necessity, she
has ad1pted liberal, not an oppressive
pollcv--"ltroclties" being overlooked;
and in return for permitting the exist
cnce of various impcria In mpcrio she
has experienced only ingrattudc. mani
tested in the political eVclusiveness"
of The ~ amalgamatcd inset nationali-
ties. complete lack Of support for the
supposedly all cnvcloplng Ottoman
nationality.
Is there conflict between the Moslem
inv and the law Of nations with regard
20 foreigners The assistant professor
dcries Il explicitly at page :, and at
ragc 118 rcCogni2es an "irreconcilable
difference In respect TO personal status
and civil capacity" According to the
Koran non Moslems are Dar-ul-harb. of
the "house OF war" to he cNerlaStinEly
opposed except when under soulh. truce.
This, by the way. ia the word used ny
tho Turks where the English is "capitu-
latlorS": on both sides there IL hint or
war In the word hut etymology Is
treacherors. In each language better
term might have been chosen: as and
nafneh. letters Of privilege, In the Turk
ish and IN the English. charter of
privileges accord to foreigners.
In the code OF Soliman II. the foreign
or IN Moslcm lands and the Moslem In
foreign lands were alike 'mustemin,
under the protection Of the State.
A recital OF cases eNemplfying inter
national usage up to 1853, the year OF
the taking OF Const1ntinople. shows
Simply and undebatahly the growth OF
international reciprocity in tho safe
guarding of the private in erests OF sub
iects out Of mutual needs, always a
urid FRO quo. our minus and plus can
ceiling your plus and minus. So when
Nohammcd the ConQueror. taking Con-
stant!nuple, vested in the Greek Pa
tr!archate he government OF the pri-
Nntc affairs Of hts new Greek subjects
the fact that the Turks In the midst OF
a great triumph spontaneously ana gen.
crouS'y recognized the right o. the con-
qucrud ~ he governed by their own laws
and customs" IS not 50 Essential as
the fact tha, this tocrent policy was
in no way antagouistic to the spirit OF
the letter of Islam" Tho Corqueror II
s,,l;lng THE establishment OF an effcc'
live system Of administration" doubt
less ta1ugh' much molc OF making 4
such as to relieve tho Government n
needle = embarrassment" than Of max
In u prove suitable 20 the needs " nj:
I.v''N conquered Chr. tan subjects.
Z. The aimed % leave tine Greeks To tn,
fflfpst rractlclhia extern, N the free en-
trvmeui OF their own laws and custom.
under the responsible control OF theil
Patriarch who should serve as their in
t,rm,cf,rv or ambassador before tn.
yu','iu,o pnr,c" rho NTH Of the state
,.,,t is In the "prartic1hlcness' Of tn,
concession and N tho responsibility" o
.tbc control And tbis mot nv way a
arrn,inr m. Turkish intolerance q
.dory,,g Turkish mollr,-,v. bu,-on,
,y.n so much IN. TIIrcnphiIe must con
slder a trlumrb NJ conc.ssi NV wa,
~ 4nsistanco unon Turkish .ssentio
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ore not followers OF the Irophet.
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SITUATIONS is political phenomenon .
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