New-York tribune., 1918-01-21

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exists '''an
"Dr. Stuermer emphasizes the fact th,.
spirit which inspires the Young Tn .oe
rulers is the spirit not of religion. t...a .AiSa
race fanaticism. The Pan-Islamjc ;d.. of
been renounced in favor of the Pan-Tr... nay
purely racial movement. The DESIGN ''' "a
Holy War directed against certain ;rss
abroad, while other inidels were doro;."ees ;es
Turkey itself at home. indicates the ahssAg
Of any true religious fanaticisrn:
The German in Turkey
"'The Committee Of Union and Pro-
is composed of successful adyenturers .A' ..
venus without any political o bistal:.
training, too uneducated to Understand .1
significance of Pan-Islamism from r.s. ''e
mans point of view; from the tir,o A.
they came into power they treated s''' 10
Arabs with incredible tactlessness .ns 'as w
fcnsive arrogance. There VI
time in the second Balkan War. iu,,
ter the fall of Adrianople, when recos.;,.
alton might have been effected. and wi, as'
Syrian and Arabic deputation came n e.sH'
graduate the Sultan. But their 49,. .oi-
was of very discouraging nature d.ta and .sa
occasion passed. The Arabic lands ,s-'
been lost to Turkey by the greedy s,' ps,
Turkish ambitions Of the comnittoo r, III
curious egotism which makes it almos. :"
possible for Germans to believe tbemso,...
unwelcome in. any society has for ,,s-
time sustained them in complacent hs;.,
in the permanence Of their present wi.
tions with Turkey; by this time nrobsrr
their disillusionment is fairly comnls,.
The intense, deep-rooted nationalism Of n.
Young Turks does not prevent them from
making what they can out OF their Germs
ally, or from adopting any technical or ID
ministrative methods which have nrov.a
profitable in Europe. It reveals ;tss,,
mainly in two directions-in the strucvlo
for greater Turkey and in the measnTs.
taken to get rid Of all the non-Turkisb ele.
ments in the country; the latter movement
may be traced from the abolition Of tbs
Capitulations to the Armenian massacre.
The first step, the abolition Of the Canitu.
lAtions, affected Germany as much as anv
other nation; for long time she was silent
on the painful subject, and did not formal.
ly recognize the accomplished Fact till 1916
when her military understanding with Tur.
key, for better or worse, was firmly estab.
hshed. In the summer of 1915 the Ian.
guage question came up. At the end of the
year, by Talaats orders, all French and
English signs and inscriptions disappeared,
even in Pera, where only one in a hundred
can read Turkish. Unintelligible Turkish
f1ourishes replaced the French notices in
tramcars and police instructions, the Turks
preferring to let the Levantine public pluck
flowers in the park and break its legs in
leaping out of the wrong car rather than
concede trihe to the general comfort,
"Dr. Stuermer, however severely he con-
demns his government, by no means despairs
Of his country. He consoles himself in exile
with happy dreams of a reconciled Germany
her envious schemes, her tao
less interference in the vital interests Of
other nations,' and her political intrigues dis
guised as commercial enterprises and carr
ing the products of her peaceful labors to the
shores Of the Persian Gulf Ee has given us
all an interesting and courageous book, and
we must not grudge him his dreams"