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thsn ever before 30 exercise even q
semblance Of authority over these
desert tribesmen- The loss they will
suffer here win be more In Mosiem
prestige than In territ,ry.
They must likewise naturally feel
that Armenia Is lost to them Their
treatment Of their Armenian subjects.
the massacre and deportation %
death Of more than half q million of
these people. was an undeniable
proof Of their unfitness b rule sub
Jet races. The horror Ct the CIV
flized world at the crimes committed
against the Armenians can have. the
Turkish delegates know. only one
effect. the lifting Of this unhappy
race forever from the Turkish con-
troll. In the loss of Armenia ths
Turks part with ths most Industrious
and progressive people Of their Asi-
atic dominion. and also with o terri
tory which under q liberal Govern
ment could have been developed into
the richest and most prosperous por-
tion Of their empire
There II no reason b believe that
the British win abandon the hold
which they now have upon either the
Nesopotamian valley or Palestine. or
that the French VIII see the Turkish
rule reestabiished In Syria. The ex-
Get nature Of the control which Vim
Be given to France and Great Brit
ain win no doubt be decided by the
conference There are. too. to be
considered the demands Of Italy and
Greece to the Asia Minor littoral and
the islands along the coast That
these matters have been already un-
der Confederation by the conference
Is shown by the permission granted
TO the Greeks for the landing at
Smyrna and by the abandonment by
the Italians Of their claims to the
Dodecaniesan Islands Of the eastern
Mediterranean
tunity Of bringing to q final settle
ment the position Of the Turk In
Europe and at the same time the de6-
mite marking Of the long disputed
boundaries between Bulgaria and
Greece That the line Of Greece shall
be carried eastward In Thrace to the
Black Sea and that the Bulgarian
advance 10 the BoSporus shall be
halted on the present frontier Of Bull
garia Is q contentton Of Premier
vESIzELos that II Is believed viii be
accepted at Paris
There Is, however. no definite state
ment which might foru a basis for a
decision regarding the future Of Con
stantinople. II was generally stated
at the time Of the armistice that the
Turkish rule az CsastaGs.GsP,c w:s
to be ended and that the Turk At last
was to be pushed back into Anatoiia.
with his Government head at Brusa
or some other OF his former Asiatic
capitals. The difficulty. however. has
so far been 10 ind an international
control Of Constantiuopie that would
prove acceptable. There has, too. re-
Gently appeared an unusual activity
directed to retaining the city as the
seat Of the Sultanate; the reason as
signed Is that 70 take Con<tantinople
from the control Of Islam would be to
arouse the dIscontent and unrest Of
the Moslem people Of the world II Is
evident that OF the entire Turkish
question its most diffcult and perplex-
ing phase Is to-day as in the past the
disposition of Constartfnople- But
civilization has unwillinziy endured
50 long the bIizhtinz Turkish mastery
Of this great city that it : impossible
to believe thst the Peace Conference
with the opportunity which II now has
to atone for EGrope's mistakes IN the
past VIII not attempt to give 70 Con
stantfuople the place which II should
hold IN the modern economic and COM
merrial world.