The Watertown news. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1917-1919, 1917-12-03
GREEK TO FILL
SHOES" OF TURK
Prof. Andreade, Athens, Says
Countrymen Cover Region
Down to DardaneIIes.
WOULD BE BAR TO GERMANS
Hellenic Preponderance in CONSTANT.
nople and AdrianopIe Basis for
Claim-PrincipIe of National.
ity Hitherto Ignored.

Athens.-If the Turk is to leave Eu-
rope, as the entente allies have re-
quired in their war terms, then there
is well defined belief in the Balkans
that two results will occur Of high i'm
portance to Greece and all Europe:
l. That the Greek inevitably will
succeed the Turk throughout Thrace
and in the whole region down to the
Dardanelles and the Bosphorus.
2. That new zone Of territory
friendly to the entente will thus be
stretched horizontally straight across
the Balkans as a barrier to the Ger
man dream of making the Balkans a
German high road to the Orient.
Professor Andreade Of the 'Univer-
sity Of Athens, one Of the foremost
authorities on international affairs re-
lating to the Balkans, holds this view,
and in the course of a talk he ex-
planned how these two results would
naturally come about in the final peace
adjustment, by reason of the principle
of nationalities now accepted by the
entente allies as basis for territorial
readjustment.
Points to Greek Predominance.
Professor Andreade, who is a spe-
cialist ON the extent of Greek citizen
Nhip beyond the Greek frontierS-in
Turkey, Syria and Asia Minor-peint-
ed out the great predominance 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
kans 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 Constantinople," he
said, ''is a 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
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 a 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 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
natiOnalities, would interpose two bar.
riers to Germanic expansion toward
Asia Minor and the Orient-one, the
Greek zone across Thrace, and an.
other, the Serb Roumanian link of ter.
ritory which lies as a 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.
sSAnd fh11S onfonfo E11rono non %
complish what it chiefly seeks in the
Balkans" said Professor Andreade,
friendly entente zones intercepting
the natural route Of Ge1manic expan-
sion toward the Orient, and this can
be accomplished, not by force, but by
the principle Of nationality now &C.
cepted by the entente powers"