The Washington times., 1920-05-30
CHAPTER III.
BROWN MANS LAND.

ROWN Mans Land IL the Near
IN and Middle East. The brown
world stretches in an immense
belt clear across southern Asia and
northern Africa. from the Pacific to
the Atlantic oceans. It's great spir-
itual bond is Islam. .
The brown world, like the yellow
world, Is today in acute reaction
AGAINST white supremacy. The great
dynamic of this reaction is the Mo-
or Islamic Revival.
Syrian Christian. Ameen Rihani
thus characterizes the present
strength and vitality of the Moslem
world:
"a nation of 100000, 900 souls. more
\than one-half under Christian rule.
struggling to shake of it's fetters; a
bation with a glorious past. a living
faith and language. an undying hope,
might be divided against itself by
European diplomacy, but can never
be subjugated by European arms.
. What Islam is losing on the
borders of Europe it is gaining in
Africa and Central Asia through its
Amodern propaganda"
If this be indeed the present spirit
\of Islam it is n portentous fact, for
hts numerical strength is very great.
ghe Mohammedans not only predom-
ith the exception of India, but they
30 count IO,OOO,0O0 adherents in
nina and are gaining prodigiously
nong the blacks of Africa.
The Russo-Japanese war of 1904
/sent a feverish tremor throughout
Islam. The Japanese might be ~ido-
lators, but the traditional Moslem
loathing of idolators was quite ef-
faced by the burning sense of sub
jugation to the Christian yoke. Ac-
cordingly, the Japanese were hailed
as heroes throughout Islam. In China
slso the same fraternizing spirit was
Visible. o.
Here we see again that tendency
howard an understanding between
Asiatic and African races and creeds
lin other words, a "Pan -Colored" alli
epce against white domination)
Which has been SO patent in recent
BEARS.
Under these circumstances it may
at first sight appear strange that no
general Islamic explosion occurred
when Turkey entered the lists at the
| close of 1914 and the Sultan -Khalifa
issued a formal summons to the holy
war. or course this summons was not
the flat failure which allied reports
led the West to believe at the time.
kAs a matter of fact, the British gov
erpment has officially admitted that
dtking 1915 the allies Asiatic and
African possessions stood within
hands breadth of cataclysmic tn
surrection.
Meanwhile Islam could bide its time
and grow in strength.
The Versailles peace conference
was just such a revelation of Euro
pean intentions as the Pan-Islsmic
leaders had been awaiting to enlist
the moral solidarity OF their peoples.
At Versailles the European powers
showed unequivocally that they had
no intention of relaxing their hold
upon the Near and Middle East. BY
a number OF secret treaties the OF
toman empire had been virtually par
titioned between the victorious allies.
When, therefore. the East saw
peace settlement based, not upon
these high professions, but upon the
fmperialistic secret treaties, a tide OF
impassioned determination began ris.
ing which has already set the entire
Mast In tumultous ferment
Let tlA brown world once make
up It's mind that the white man
must CO., and he will go. for HE
position will have become simply
Impossible. II Is not solely a aucs-
on OF a Holy War" mere passive
|sistance, II genuine and general,