Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1917-01-18


allied note l desire to make the fol-
lowing observations which you should
bring t. the notice of the United
States government.
Il gather from the general tenor of
the presidents note that while he is
animated by an intense desire that
peace should, come soon and that
when it comes it should be lasting. he
does not feel at least concerned him
self with the terms on which it should
be arranged. His majesty's govern
ment entirely shares the presidents
/ ideas: but they feel strongly that the
durability of peace must largely de-
pend on its character and that no
stable system of international rela-
ticns can be built on foundations
which are essentially and hopelessly
defective
This becomes clearly apparent if
we consider the main conditions which
! rendered possible the Gala antilles from
which the world is now suffering.
These were the existence of great
! powers consumed with the lust of
domination in the midst of a COM
! munity of nations ill-prepared for de-
tense. plentifully supplied indeed with
international laws. but with no ma
! chinery for enforcing them and weak
| boundaries of the various states nor
J the internal constitution harmonized
| with the aspirations of their consti-
! tuent races or secured to them lust
and equal treatment
That this last evil would be greatly
| mitiSated # the allies secured the
| changes in the map of Europe outlined
| in their joint note is manifest, and |
need not labor the point
| expulsion Of the Turks from Europe
| forms no proper or logical part oil
! this general scheme. The mainte-
| nance of the Turkish empire was dur
I ing many generations regarded as -
sential tC the maintenance of Euroj~-
! an peace. Why, it is asked should
| the cause of peace be now associated
| with complete reversal of this ira
! ditioral policy?
THE answer is that circumstances
! have completely changed 1t is I'M
! necessary to consider now whether
! the creation of a reformed Turkey
mediating between hostile races in the
near east was q scheme which, had
! inc sultan been sincere and the powers
! united, could ever have been realized
! 1t crtainly cannot be realized now.
| The Turkey of union and progress
Is at least as barbarous and is far
more aggressive than the Turkey of
| Sultan Abdul Hamid In the hand of
Germany it has ceased even in ap-
! pearance to be a bull vark of peace
and is openly used as instrument of
/ conquest. Under German officers
! turkish soldiers are now fighting in
lands from which they had long been
| expelled and a Turkish government
controlled. subsidized and supported by
| Herinany has been guilty of massacres
| IN Armenia and Syria more horrible
! than any recorded in the history even
, OF those unhappy countries. Evidently
/ ire interests of peace and the claims
OF nationality alike require that Turk
| lsh rule over alien races shall, if pos
sloie~ be brought to an end and We
may hope that the expulsion of Turkey
from Europe willcontribute as much to
| ire cause of peace as the restoration
| or Alsace-l-orra.ine to France or IRE
dcnta TO Italy or any of the other
territorial charges indicated in the
allied note
! Evidently, however such terrific
rial arrangements, though they NAV
/ diminish the reasons of war, provide
no sufficient security against its re-
/ currence If Germany, or rather those
IN Germany who mould it's opinions
and control its destinies, again set
| out to 1omineer the world, they NAV
iii.u tIe.i DV LIZ new order of things
| the adventure is made more difficult
but hardly that it is made impossible
Tbey may still have ready to their
nand perfect system organized
through and through on a military
basis; they may still accumulate vast
stores of military equipment: thew
may still persist in their methods O,
attack, so that their more pacific
nelghpors VII be struck down before
! they can prepare themselves for de-
tense If SO Europe. when the war
is over. will be far poorer in men. in
money and in mutual good will than
it was when the war began, but it will
not be safer; and the hopes for the
future of the world entertained by
the president will be as far as ever
from fulfillmenr.
4 so long as Germany remains the
| Germany which without a shadow of
Justification overran and barbariously
treated country il was Pledged
10 defead, no state can regard its