Arizona republican., 1917-01-27
BRYCE SAYS TURKS MUST LEAVE EUROPE
 FOR ITS OWN GOOD
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 LONDON, Jan 26.-The demand for the expulsion of the Turk from Europe included among the terms in the en- tente allied note in reply to President Wilson, is justified by Lord Bryce in his views on that phase of the entente reply, which were given to the Associ- ated Press today.
 This is the first time the former am bassador to the United States has ap- peared in connection with the peace discussion, for while he has carefully considered President Wilson's moves and the responses made to them, he has refrained from anyseutterance on the subject. Later he decided conclusions he has reached may be published.
 Concerning Turkey, however, Lord Blyce's views were formulated before the peace notes were exchanged and will appear in about a month for au-' thorized publication in London and New York under government auspices. Ow ing to their direct bearing upon the terms regarding Turkey laid down by the allies, he now has made them avail able to the Associated Press.
 No one who has studied the history of the near east for the last five cen turies, said Lord Bryce, will be sur prised that the allied powers have de clared their purpose to put an end to the rule of the Turk in Europe and still less will he dissent from the determin ation to deliver the Christian popula- tion of what is called the Turkish em- pire, whether in Asia or in Europe, from the government which during five cen turies has done nothing but oppress them.
 These changes are indeed long over due. They ought to have done more than a century ago, because it had been already become manifest that the Turk was helplessly unfit to govern, with any approach to justice subject races of different religion
 The Turk never has been of any use for any purpose except for fighting He cannot administer though in his earlier days he had the sense to employ intelligent Christian administrators. He cannot secure justice. As q gov erning power he has always shown himself incapable, corrupt and cruel. He has always destroyed; he has never created.
 Those whom We call Turks are not a nation at all in the proper sense of the word. The Ottoman Turks were small cOnquering tribe of Central Asia who were ruled during the first two centuries of their conquests by a sue cession of singularly able and unscrup ulous sultans, who subjugated the Christian population of Asia Minor and southeastern Europe. compelling part of these populations to embrace Mo hammedanism and supporting their own powers by seizing the children of the rest, forcibly converting them to Islam and making out of them an eff ficient standing army of Janizaries. by whose yalor and discipline the Turkish wars of conquest were carried on from the early fifteenth down into the nine tenth century.
 As a famed English historian wrote, the Turks are nothing but a robber band encamped in the countries they have desolated. As Edmund Burke wrote, the Turks are savages with whom no civilized Christian nation ought to form any alliance.
 Turkish rule ought to be ended in Europe because. even in that small part of it which the sultan still holds, it is an alien power which has in that region been and now is expressing or massacring, or driving from their homes the Christian populations of Greek and Bulgarian stock. It ought to be turned out of the western coast re- zion of Asia Minor for a like reason. The people there are largely, perhaps mostly, Greek speaking Christians. So ought it to be turned put of Ccnstan- tirople, a city of incompatible com mercial and political importance. with the guardianship of which it is unfit to be trusted. So ought it to be turned out of Armenia and Cilicia and Syria. where within the last two years it has been destroying it's Christian subjects, the most peaceful and industrious and intelligent part Of the population.
 If the Turkish sultanate is to be left in being at all it may with the least injury to the world be suffered to exist in Central and Northern Asia Minor. There, the population is mainly Mus sulman and there are comparatively few Christians, and those only in the cities, to suffer from it's misgovern-
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