The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-08-24
MARIE. QUEEN OF RUMAhlA

If Senator Tittoni manages to reach
an understanding with the Serbian
| Government of the Jugo-Slav Union
on the subject of F'iume 1t will be in
no way owing to the Peace Confer
ence, which has merely muddled the
matter. That Senator Tittoni should
have come to an agreement with
Greece on the subject of their rela-
tive spheres in Asia Minor Is also en-
tirely outside and Independent of any
| action of the conference. II what re-
| mains of the Armenian nation Is aban-
doned by the Entente to the promised
determination by the Turks, it will be
wholly and entirely due to the hesita-
| ton Of the Congress to entrust the
mandate for the entire Ottoman En-
| pire to Greece, who, financially and
morally backed by Great Britain and
France during the past half century,
is the only Power qualified by its
propinquity, its four centuries of ex-
perience of the Turkish character, by
its possession of a veteran and sea-
soned army OF 400, 900 men and by an
English trained navy, is alone quail
fled to act as mandatory, much in the
same way as England supervised and
policed Egypt in the days Of LORD
Cromer, leaving the sovereignty of the
Sultan at Constantinople and in Asia
Minor pnimpaired to govern his ieges
under the supervision of the manda-
tory nation.
1t Is thoroughly recognized by all
possessed of any practical knowledge
OF the situation in what Is known as
the Near East of Europe and In Asia
Minor that Greece, under the govern
ment of Venezelos, is the only nation
equipped and qualified to act as man
datory for the Ottoman Empire, since
international rivalries, jealousies and
, Moslem opinion as well as economic
and domestic considerations stand in
the way of its being exercised by Great
Britain, France, Italy or the United
States.
This Country Opposed.
Popular sentiment in this country
would never submit TO the main
| tenance of an American army of 150,-
| 900 men in the Ottoman Empire
throughout an indefinite period for
police purposes and for the protection
| Of the Armenians from massacre.
There would be little or no opposi-
ton by the Turks, once they knew
that the great Powers just mentioned
were behind Greece and supporting
her in her mission OF protecting the
rights, the life and the property of
| the non Moslem races in the Otto
man Empire while leaving the Sultan
| in the enjoyment of his throne and of
| his sovereignty.
But the people who are holding up
the Peace Congress in Paris from
adopting this, the only logical plan. are
tho ring of American lobbyists and
| English pacifists of the Noel Buxton
| type, who in the belief that they are
working for Bulgaria against Greece
are in reality. and I hope uncon-
sciously. playing the game of Ger
many. The interests which these lob
byists. who have already ere this ex-
cited hostile criticism in the European
and American press. are of a three
fold character.
| There are the Presbyterian mission
airy interests. which have been won
over to the Bulgarian cause, owing 10
the clever manner in which a number
of Bulgar statesmen. educated at the
great Presbyterian Roberts College al
Constantinople, have appealed to the
managers and hackers of that famous
institution.
Tobacco Interests TO Give support.
Then there are the great American
! tobacco interests, which very foollshly
have been giving their support to the
| Bulgarian cause, although Bulgaria
was ready to betray them when she
made fruitless attempt recently to
negotiate in New York an American
loan. offering as security the State
| monopoly of tobacco which, in total
disregard of American tobacco inter-
ests she proposed to create.
And thirdly, there are the interests
OF what may he described as Interna-
tional Finance. Last winter an ex-
travagant project was put forward
here and abroad to convert all Mac
edonia into an independent republic
under the protection Of the United
States and with an American High
Commissioner at the helm. Greece
Serbia and Bulgaria were to surrender
their shares of Macedonian territory
awarded to them by the treaties OF
, London and Bucharest to this new
State, which was to have the great
) Greek seaport of Salonica, the Liver.
pool of the Orient, for its capital.
, The Bulgars felt then that they
! could not hope to remain masters Of
Macedonia, In view of the atrocltie.
of which they had rendered themselve.
, guilty in that part of the world dur
, ing their savage war against the En-
: tente, and We're bent upon preventinl
; either Greece or Serbia from benefit
r ing under the terms OF the readjust
ment Of the frontiers of the southeas