The Washington herald., 1921-09-18

II Nobhf tniS pan, IKE tnat OF an american man.
i date. has gone gmnering. but constantinopls
remains unsolved problem. And toInorrow. II no
solution be found, Russia may again find unity and
strength and resume her efforts to gain an open way
to warm water. Nor is Il beyond the realm Of pos
sibity that distant date restored Germany
may seek To- reconstrnet that Mitteleuropa which ex
hted IN fact for many month during the war, and
had been e vision q Pan-Gefmans for many years
before. ~ - ~ t4.s,s ~ ~
OF aif solutions, the Greek seems the fairsst the
most wofksble and the. easiest, but il will not be
reached ithout much pickering and sbargan;ng and
never with Italian consent. And even & II \ Greece
should gain Constantnopfe she would have always to
face the menace Of Bulgatian attack just the
Byzantine emperors. confronted similar menace
nearly Thousand years ago: And since Britain would
profit, most among the great powers by Greek so
luton France and Italy viii certainly demand "com-
pensation TO balance this increase in British IN
fuence. which would amount to establishing British
supremacy soidiy at the Straits and IN the Aegean.
And If the dispatches which como to American
newspapers from abroad are more .concernsdS with
Upper Silesa than with the pardanelles has only
to examine European Journals and French ia partc-
lar, to- how large place this Eastern question
occupies. In reality it is larger question than the
Upper Slesian, more difficult of settlemeht because
there is far less chance of compromise and while il
remains unsettled the work of restoring peace
creating order in Eastern Europe, of arriving at
concord between the great powers will be postponed
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M OREOVER, for those to whom the romantic
lVl in history has appeal, the approach of
Hellenic armies to Byzantium, headed by anothu1
Constantine, after than FIVE centuries of exile
and of slavery have attraction. We in
America accustomed to think Of the Greece
of Athens than that of Byzantium, but II the Creeks
have remained loyal totheir Athenian tradition they
have never forgotten the glorics Of the Eastern
Empire and are once more .reviying mperial-
ism which is almost the Oldest In human history.
In this brief discussion of the problem of Con-
stantinople have omitted Seference to the religious
Turk is unimportant, bat the Sultan Of Turkey has
peculiar position in the Islamic world and Constant
nople meaning from the Indian Ocean to the At
iantc. If British interests best served by Greek
possession of Constantinople and the expulsion Of
the Sultan, there will be repercussohs from such
course feh from India to Egypt France in Algeria
Tunis and Morocco, Italy in Tripoli will find their
tasks gravely increased. Already on the Afghan
border the cause of the Turk has provoked threats
of war. l.aA E. gg&eA..s
And II the Turkish sovereignty the fiction of
Turkish sovereignty fingers at the Golden Horn, Il
will be the religious rather than the political factor
which decides the issue. But in the meantime, Greek
armies are daily advancing, time presses and some
solution be found. for II the existing condition
continues, the world of Islam will hold the great
powers responsible and the consequence will be
hardly less than those which might follow the actual
expulsion Of the Turk. 'ktf NArs rsNf - tfs*F ISA
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