The Washington herald., 1918-10-20
u. S. AMBASSADOR MORCENTHAUS STORY
A Million Christians
M urd Under
the Eyes of Ger
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my teyes. The hesitating and fearful
Ottoman. feeling his way cautiously
amid the mazes of European diplo-
macy, and seeking opportunities to
find an advantage for himself in the
divided counsels of the European
powers, gave place to an outstanding,
almost dashing figure, proud and as
sertive, determined to live his own
life and absolutely contemptuous of
his Christian foes. I was really wit
Messing a remarkable development in
race psychology-an almost classical
instance of reversion to type. The
ragged, unkempt Turk of the TWEEN
tieth century was vanishing and in
his place was appearing the Turk of
the fourteenth and the fifteenth, the
Turk who had swept out Of his
Asiatic Businesses. conquered all the
powerful peoples in his way, and
founded in Asia, Africa, and Europe
one of the most extensive empires
that history has known. II we are
properly to appreciate this new
Talaat and Enver and the events
which now took place. we must un-
derstand the Turk who. under Os-
man and his successors. exercised
this mighty but devastating influence
in the world. We must realize that
the basic fact underlying the Turkish
mentality is its utter contempt for
all other races. A fairly insane pride
is the element that largely explains
this strange human species. The
common term applied by the Turk to
the Christian is dog" and in his
estimation this is no mere rhetorical
Hpura. hA Ea
European neighbors as far less
worthy of consideration than his
own domestic animals. MY son." an
old Turk once said. do you see that
herd~of swine? Some are white. some
are black. some are large. some are
small-they differ from each other in
some respects, but they are all swine.
So it is with Christians. Be not de-
ceived, my son. These Christians
may wear fine clothes, their women
may be very beautiful to look upon;
their skins are white and splendid:
many OF them are very intelligent
and they build wonderful cities and
create what seem to be great states.
But remember that underneath all
this dazzling exterior. they are all
the same-they are all swine"
have talked with many foreign
residents in Turkey.
Shirks From Christians.
Practically all foreigners. in the
presence of a Turk. are conscious OF
this attitude. The Turk may be OBJ
sequiously polite. but there is inva-
rlably an almost unconscious feeling
that he is mentally shrinking from
his Christian friend as something un-
clean. And this fundamental convlc-
ton for centuries directed the Otto
man policy toward it's subject peo-
Piles. This wild horde swept from the
plains Of Central Asia and, like a
whirlwtnd, overwhelmed the nations
of MesopOtamIa and Asia Minor, II
conquered Egypt. Arabia. and prac-
tically all of Northern Africa and
then poured into Europe. crushed the
Balkan nations. occupied a large part
CT Hungary and even established the
outposts OF the Ottoman Empire in
the southern part Of Russia So far
as I can discover, the Ottoman Turks
had only one great quality, that OF
military genius. They had several
military leaders of commanding Bill
ity. and the early conquering Turks
were brave. fanatical, and tenacious
fighters, just as his descendants are
today. l think that these old Turks
present the most complete illustra-
ton in history of the brigand idea
IN politics. T'tay were lacking in
what we may call the fundamentals
of a civilized community They had
no alphabet and no art of writing
nc books. no poets. no art. and no