The sun., 1918-10-06
BY HENRY MORGENTHAU,.
Former Ambassador 70 Turkey.

THE recent victories of the allied
Il arms in both Palestine and Mace
donna have brought the Eastern front into
prominence again and draw the usual par
entheses around Hun and Turk.
For Huns and Turks are fighting to-
gethcr for the cause Of the Kaiser in the
East: That is to say the Turks are Of
fiecred and commanded by Huns. One
OF these latter, Gen. Won Sanders, was
sent TO ConstantinOple during my term
there as American Ambassador 10 be the
personal representative of the Kaiser in
a military way.
This Won Sanders, commanding Turk
ish army in Palestine, was put to flight
by Gen. Allenby. He fled, leaving his
army behind, thus indicating the democrat
ization of the Turks and Huns.
This association of the HIM and the
Turk is interesting. For the Hun and the
Turk have proved brothers in ferocity. 1
was struck with this resemblance while l
was in Constantinople from 1918 to
1915. ] had every opportunity to make
the comparison, since / was intimately
associated with Talaat, the ''boss" of the
Young Turks party, and Enver Pasha,
the Turkish Minister of War, as well as
with other Turkish functionares.
At the same time Baron Won Wangen-
helm, an intimate of the Kaiser, was
German Ambassador in COnstantinople
and in charge of the Kaiser's policy in
the East, which, except for the victories
made possible by Liberty bonds, would
have enabled the Hohenzollen to carve
out an empire as basis for world do
minion stretching from the North Sea to
the Gulf Of Persia. Wangcnheim talked
freely with me at all times, with the boast
fulness Of the German.
World Knows German Ways Now.
The world is now familiar with the
German mode of dealing with popula-
tions which are in the way, as disclosed
in Belgium and France through the de,
portations. The Turks are admittedly
cruel and thrive politically, when they
thrive at all, by assassinations. The
Turks have been accused of the deporta-
ton of Greeks from the islands close TO
the port of Smyrna. They have also
been regarded as the instigatOrs of the
deportations and massacres of the Ar
menians.
Yet the Germans were responsible pri-
marily for these shameful events. The
Greeks on the mainland of Asia Minor
and on the islands close by formed an
obstacle to the German plan for a Ger
man empire stretching TO the Persian
Gulf. So the Germans suggested to the
Turks that the Greeks be moved. This
have on the authority, among others, of
Admiral Uzidon, who was stationed in the
Dardanelles during the bombardment.
They carried out the German sugges-
ton and marched the Greeks to ships
without allowing them TO arrange their
affairs and taking no pains TO keep fami-
lies together. This device Of Pan-Ger-
manism, of moving whole populations
which were in the German way, was car
ried out by the Turks, who wished TO place
the Greeks on wholly Greek islands
The same policy was carried out in the
matter of the Armenian deportations and
massacTts later. 1t was the policy sug-
gcstcd TO the Turk by the German. In
these respects the Hun has proved himself
more cruel than the Turk.
Why Turks Welcomed Them.
II is this resemblance in character, l
think, which explains the readiness with
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