The Washington times., 1922-10-29
BY j. J.. GARVIN---
(The WeLLKnopn En0ish Political Wyttv)
The Fruits of Foy-EnglanGs Part IN the Greek TragedyAd
Unity Must BE Accomplished Another Peril Ahead He Says
Paris Failed of Courage when Treating with the Turk Both Of the
Allies Are Keenly Interested I'm Freedom of Straits.

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homeland would have satisfied at
once the logic Of war and the logic
Of experience. The powers failed
OF the courage for such an obvious
and natural delimination. They de-
prived the Turk Of all his Europ-
can dominions except the capital
which symbolised his pride Of con-
quest. and there they left his nag
flying to keep alive every associa.
ton Of his suzsrainty over the Gia-
our. They pulled the bone from
the dog AND left the end Of II be-
tween his teeth. The ingenuity Of
Mephistopheles could not have
better ensured the rekindiing Of
militarist-tradition. and the stimu-
lation Of every racial Instinct to
the recovery Of lost lands. T.
But. not satisfied with that I'm
pediment to peace, the Powers
must needs create another. They
ushsred Greece into Asis Minor to
assume . tenure which was In the
nature Of the case an impossibility.
There IL no country in which his
tory has been at such pains to re-
peat it, essential Lessons; and the
most outstanding Of these Lessons
is that the absence Of any natural
frontier condemns . European ten
ant there to hold his title at the
expense Of eternal conflict. ,
Had modern ofsscs been =
Power with the resources. tensoity,
and military aptitude bf Rome or
Byzantium. she might have retain.
"a the gift for centuries ~ they
did, only to lose It, - they did
at the end. But, Greece being
Greece, the present catastrophe
was bound to arrive ~ soon a. she
was left to her own vindication Of
the fatal endowment. Co..
She would have needed perpetual
mobilization. corresponding finan-
ial margins. and . diffussd con.
stancy Of purpose on the heroic
scale. A. soon a. any Of these
failed. the adventure was over and
bankrupt. a. It 10 today. The posi-.
ton which the Treaty created was
never dependent ON the resources
Of Greece herself, but on that un-
animous support Of the Allied Pow
ers which only the diplomatic gen
ius Of NJ. Venizelos raised to, the
dignity even Of an hypothesis.
When NJ. venizelos fell. the pil-
lars Of the grandiose scheme of ag-
grandisernsnt disappeared along
with him, and gravitation began
Immediately to do its work. For
her own part In the story. Greece
can take account with herself.
What concerns Engiishmen II the
failure of English ministers to see
the factors Of the situation thus
left, and their supine expectancy
that dynamic laws would deal
tenderly with those who would not
take the trouble to understand
them.
From the moment OF King Con-
stantine's recall - and still more
certainly from the moment when
France aud Italy began to deal
with Angora on their own account
1t was manifest that the Treaty
Of Serves could be maintained only
by the arms of the British nation.
II the British Government was
prepared to fight the Turk afresh,
its countenance of Greek ambi-
tions would have been Consistent
not to breach the matter Of its
being wise. But since It never
dreamt Of so fighting, and since
the impossibility Of an Independent
and lasting Greek success was a.
certain as the days Of the calen-
dar. there was no rational course
but to promote q settlement with
Turkey upon the best terms avail
able.
Let the Turk be as evil as you
hke-and his journal has certainly
never been among his apologize
the only practical courses are
either to resist him by arms or to
make the best available arrange
ments for whatever interests we
cherish by diplomacy. Only in
fatuation could elect to certify him
Of our hostility while we were
visibly unprepared to- offer any
effective opposition.
Yet this is precisely. what the
British Government has done
while month by month drifted
away. II has given its futile
moral support to Greece in the
pursuit Of the impossible. while
it has inflamed every recalci.
trancy Of the Ottoman mind to-
ward the standards Of which we
conceive ourselves the upholders.
What has such empty backing
achieved in the result Of our