The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1917-12-14
GREEK TO FILL
"SKOES" OF TURK
Prof. Andreade, Athens, Says
Count7ymen Cover Region
Down to DardaneIIes.
WOULD Be BAR TO GERMANS
Hellenic Preponderance in CONSTANT
nopIe and Adrianople Basis for
claim-Principle of National
ity Hitherto Ignored

Athens.-If the Turk is to leave Eu-
rope. as the entente allies have re-
luired in their war terms, then there
is a well defined belief in the Balkans
hat two results viii occur of high i'm
portance to Greece and all Europe:
l. That the Greek inevitably will
ucceed the Turk throughout Thrace
and in the whole region down to the
lardunoles ana the Bosphorus.
.. That new zone of territory
friendly to the entente will thus be
stretched horizontally straight across
he Balkans rs Il barrier to the Ger
aan drcam OF milking the Balkans q
German high road To the Orient
Professor Andreade of the Univer-
Sity of Athens, one of the foremost
authorities on international affairs re
ating to the Balkans. holds this view
md In tie course of talk he eN
pi3iued how these two results would
naturally come about in the final peace
.diustlleuf. by reason of the princip,
If nationalities nov accepted by lht
entente allies az basis for territorial
'endiuStment.
Points to Greek Predominance.
Professor Audreade, who is a Spe-
ciaisl ON the extent of Greek citizen
ship beyond Che Greek frontiers-in
Macedonia and the other Balkans. in
Turkey. Syria and Asia Minor-point-
ed out The great pred0minance of the
Greeks in the regions to be evacuated
by the Turks If they are to leave Eu
rope.
The whole vilayet, or province of
Adrianople. extending from the Bal
tans down To ConStantinople, he de-
clared. is as much Greek as it is Turk
and with the Turks out it is practically
all Greek. Even ConstantiuOple.' he
said. lis II Greek city-the largest of
Greek cities-with a population Of
$4,000 Greeks. That gives an idea of
the extent of Greek citizenship in all
this section down to the straits, which
will have to be considered. on the basis
of nationality and race, when the TURK
leaves Europe.
THAT is why | say" added Profess
sor Andreade, that If the Turk is TO
withdraw, the principle of nationality,
which recognizes the racial condition
Of n community. will lead to the recog-
milton of Greek paramount influence
in that section. Thus far. the principle
of nationality has been ignored and
violated in all Balkan settlements, and
force has prevailed. Austria and Bull
garia have not occupied any of the
territory annexed in recent years by
reason that their race or nationality
prevailed in these sections, but solely
by reason of their military force. That
has been the cause of the endless wars
in the Balkans, for people are never
satisfied when their race is ignored
and they are attached to a foreign con-
queror by force"
Two Barriers to Germany.
Professor Andreade, referring to the
Balkan map, showed how the readjust-
ment of Balkan boundaries, based on
nationalltles, would interpose two bar
riers to Germanic expansion toward
Asia Minor and the Orient-One. the
creek zone across Infhce, anu an
other, the Serb-Roumanian link of ter
ritory which lies as dam between
Hungary and Bulgaria. This Serb
Roumanian link is only fifty miles
across, but with Roumania getting the
Banat region, to which Professor An
dreade says she is entitled by the prin-
ciple of nationality, this entente link
will be $50 miles across.
"And thus entente Europe can &C
complish what it chiefly seeks in the
Balkans said Professor Andreade.
friendly entente zones interceptins
the natural route of Germanic expan-
sion toward the Orient, and this can
be accomplished. not by force, but by
the principle of nationality now ac-
cepted by the entente powers"