Morris tribune., 1918-11-15
AMERICAS INTEREST IN THE NEAR EAST

The recent history of the Near East is story of
misadventure disaster land suffering The Balkan
States exhausted by the of 1912 and 1913 with
scany time for resuscitation have each had to play
part in the Great War which, far the people
concerned is little short of tragica Serbia brave and
unnchng has faced tempest of destructive elements
causing desolaton and death where smiling
villages and happy people Greece caught in the eddes
bilize for war; while facing economic distress at home
and the violent persecution of her nationals in Asia
Minor.
In Rumania we see the results of Teuton greed and
frightfulness in their most insidious FORM If
yrant had his clutches the throat of PROSTATE
nation with the evident Of enslavement Rumana
is that nation. The Kaiser shows great competency in
employing frghtfulness in securing the adoption of
means to end. In Belgium and northern France he
has enslaved large numbers of civilians and compelled
most terrible conditions. In Rumania he applied
forms of economic oppression to strangle the
very life of the nation.
Bulgarias claims to superior enlightenment and
civic progress only make her beguiement by the
of the world the conspicuous her treat
ment of Serbia only the reprehensible. There
evidence that at least of her statesmen discern the
ominous advent of the coming day of Judgment when
boundaries national rights, and other details will be
settled by honest panstaking study rather
than by force of
But the blacklist and revolving chapter of re-
history has been enacted within of the
Ottoman Empire. Here the farsghted Teuton
mind has guided the willing, trucuent Turk policies
hideous and diaboca than any he has hitherto pur
sued When the future historian is able view the
Great War in it's true perspective the
Christian populations by GermanoTurkish methods will
stand out above all other horrors of this period While
after the affairs in the Balkan States will have
reviewed studied and readusted according the
dards of justice and durable peace the Turkish regime
will have to be overhauled with righteous efficiency
The voices of million and half Armenians Greeks
and Syrians to heaven for justice and the civilized
world will surely hear that And here let it be said
that the German Imperial Government held re-
sponsible for the whole bloody drama. The evidence
against her overwhelming and of it direct
1y from German Such authorities Charles
Woods, Ambassadors Morgenthau and Elkus, and DIR.
Harry steurmer supported by statements numer-
GUS missionaries and consus and others
having German officers leading gendarmes in
their work of and Of the protests
santinople and Berlin which received consideration
whatever When the reports of the deportations first
reached America Count Bernstor his usual we'll
known facility in lying, declared there was no truth
in them.
America has special intrest in the Christian pop
ulations of Turkey Her missionaries have worked for
hunderd planting schools colleges in every
province and establishing elevated of living
She cannot forget that the Imperial Government
connved at and instgated this greatest the
ages and she clearly that President Wilson,
Lloyd George and Senator Lodge right in insisting
dictated peace. The Near never be rem
ovated and reconstructed by negotiaton-From s'The
Redemption of the Near East" by T. Dutton in
the American Review of Reviews for November 1918.