The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1921-04-21
Let Truth Be Known About
the New Greek Struggle
!! (From The Atlantis, National Greek
NewsDaper. New York !

| Newspaper, New York;
The Greeks are fighting in Asia
Minor. After thirty months of {
which laid down her arms in uttel
| defeat on that fatal day Of October
Goth, 1918, is today battling against
| Greece with arms and ammunition
and money and no doubt, with the
| military advice of the selfsame
| powers that defeated her more thar
two years ago, and with the hell
of the most disgusting and most un,
dignified propaganda, that ever was
carried in favor Of the unspeakable
Turk.
1t is one of those tragedies d
| European politics, which to the
average American are something o1
a mystery; to such an extent is the
rascality of European diplomacy un-
fathomable. And yet what happens
today in Asia Minor is the natural
sequel of a policy common to most
of the powers of Europe when deal
ing with the Turk. Not all the
butcheries of hundreds of thousands
of innocent Christians, nor all the
bloody record Of Turkish history
in Europe, have succeeded in the
least in changing the attitude of the
western powers toward these in
truders who invaded the most beauti-
full lands of the Near East five
hundred years ago, bringing tears
and misery and servitude and death
in their wake.
The trouble with the Turk is
that he occupied what the stragetists
love to call key position" in
Europe Esta blished in CONSTANT
nople and just to the south of the
erstwhile Russian EmpireI he not
only was allowed to possess the
seat of the ancient Byzantium, but
he was strengthened there and for
tilted by the powers which dreaded
him less than Russia.
The Turkish problem was created
because too many powers wanted to
divide the Ottoman Empire, but al
ways quarelled among themselves,
so that it was found to be the inte-
rest of all to maintain the Statuquo,
or to let things stay as they were.
With the fall of Russia and the
subsequent fall of Turkey it was
thought that the Eastern pre- blem
would be settled in a way to satisfy
the rightful aspirations of all those
nationalities, which the Turks had
oppressed for period of five long
centuries. A new Armenia and a
new Mesopotamia and a new Pale
stine, would be the outcome of the
partition of the Ottoman. Empire,
while the Greek nation would re-
assert it's claim on those lands that
have been Greek from the dawn OF
history, and have maintained their
traditional character and their un-
diving allegiance to their Hellenic
Motherland, from the time of their
first colonization to the present day.
In order to accomplish this, Tur-
key, following it's defeat, was to be
disarmed, shorn of all prestige, and
placed under allied control. The al
lies were then to impose the dictates
of Justice and fair play to the van
,uuished, and the Near East would
be ready to take it's part in the
world, as reshaped by the Great
War.
For nearly two whole years, the
victorious allies kept the Turkish
problem under discussion, and were
unable to reach an arrangement
which would be satisfactory to all.
The same jealousies that had so
much to do with the human catas-
trophe of the last five years, the
same intrigues and mutual distrusts
appeared in the councils of the allies
when the Turkish problem came
before them for settlement.
The result is that not single
one of the nations freed from the
Turkish yoke, is today satlshed
with the arrangement, with the pos
sible exception of Arabia, and per
haps Palestine.
Armenia is the greatest victim OF
these interallied jealousies; Syria is
seething under the French, Mesopo-
tamia is in a state of continuous
revolt. The allied diplomats, entire
ly oblivious of the sacrifices made
by millions of the. soldiers OF Europe
and America, not only have turned
their backs to the nations OF the
Near East but they even went to
the extent of again. befriendlng the
Turk, in an effort to bring matters
back where they were, before the
war and their victory.
The Treaty of Sevres was the
outcome of this tendency on behalf
of the allies toward Turkey. AND
the fact that this treaty was moi
ratified by the allies, and was even
on the point of being radically
modified in favor of the Turk IN
the recent London conference, is the
best proof of the desire of the al
lies to undo the greatest accomplish
ment of their victory, which was tc
do away with Turkish domination
in Europe.
Greece knows the working of the