Norwich bulletin., 1917-01-18
ENTENTE ALLIES
 AMPLIEY PEACE NOTE
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 expulsion of the Turks from Europe forms no proper or logical part of this general scheme. The maintenance of generations regarded by statesmen of worldwide authority as essential to the maintenance of European peace. Why, it is asked, should the cause of plete reversal of this traditional pol icy?
 Circumstances Have Changed.
 "The answer is that circumstances have completely changed. It is un- necessary to consider now whether the creation of a reformed Turkey me- diating between hostile races :n the Near East was a scheme which,. had the sultan been sincere and the pow CTS united, could ever have been. re- aiized. It certainly cannot be real ized now. The Turkey of union and progress is at least as barbarous and Is far more aggressive than the Tur- key of Sultan Abdul Hamid. In the hands of Germany it has ceased even in appearance to be a bulwarx of peace and is openly used as an InsIru- ment of conquest. Under German of- fcers Turkish soldiers are now fight ing in lands from which they had long been expelled and a Turkish govern ported by Germany has been guilty of maSsacres in Armenia and Syria more horrible than any recorded in the his tory even of those unhappy countries. Evidently the interests of peace and the claims of nationality alike require that Turkish rule over alien races shall if possible be brought to an end; and we may hope that the expulsion of Turkey from Europe will contribute as much to the cause of peace as the of Alsace- Lorraine to France, or Italia Irredenta to Italy, or any of the territorial changes in dicated in the allied note.
 Territorial Encouragement.
 "Evidently, however such territor- Ial re-arrangements, though they may the occasions or war, proVlde currence. If Germany, or rather those In Germany who mould its opinions and control it's destinies, again set out to domineer the world, they may find that by the new order of things the adventure is made more difficult, but hardly that it is made impossible. They may still have. ready to their hand a political system organized through and through on a military base; they may | -till persist in their methods of attack, | ,o that their more pacific neighbors will be struck down before they can | prepare themselves for defense. If so, | Europe, when the war is over, will be | mutual good will than 1t was when he war began, but 1t will not be safer; md the hopes for the future of the world entertained by the president will ,e as far as ever from fulhllment.
 Germany Stood Aloof.
 "NThere are those who think that for his disease international treaties and laws may provide a suf- Icient cure, But such persons have i'll earned the lessons so clearly taught " recent history. While other na- ions, notably, the United States of
 sk1g N,.aw r.wSar IaTI reaties of arbitration to make sure hat no chance quarrel should mar the eace they desire to make perpetual, serrnany stood aloof. Her historians nd philosophers preached the spien- ors of war; power was proclaimed as he true end of the state, and the gen. ral staff forged with .untiring industry he weapons by which at the appoint d moment power might be achieved. 'hese facts proved clearly enough that reaty arrangements. for maintaining eace were not likely to find much avor at Berlin; they did not prove nat such treaties once made would be tterly intellectual. This became evil ent only when war had broken out nd the sought-out demonstration, f hen 1t came, was overwhelming. So 'ng as Germany remains the Germany .hich without a shadow of Justification , verran and barbarously ill-treated a ountry it was pledged to defend, no ate can regard it's rights as secure :
 they have no better protection than {
 solemn treaty. If
 Methods of Calculated Brutality.
 "The case is made worse by the re- [ ection that these methods of calcu- ted brutality were designed by the i .ntral powers not merely to crush to \ le dust those with whom they were c
 war but to intimidate those with | hom they were still at peace. Bel c um was not only a victim; it was l t example. Neutrals were intended i
 note the outrages which accompa- l ed its conquest, the reign of terror r