Perth Amboy evening news., 1922-11-09
TURK MANDATE
STORY TOLD
Action by U. S. Would Have
Prevented Near East Crisis
Morgenthau Says

SPRINGFIELD, Mass, Nov. o.
Acceptance of the Turkish mandate
by the United States, when requested
to do so. would have prevented the
Near East crisis. Henry M~orgsnthau,
former ambassador from United
States to Turkey, told the National
Milk Producers Federation at its
opening session here today. I'VE
Americans" he said, must he
ashamed that we did not see the
necessity and the wisdom of our ac-
cepting the mandate over Turkey
when it was offered us. Had we
done so. not only would this trouble
never have occurred, but to-day the
progress of the Near East and the
progress of all the countries that
border on the Mediterranean. would
have been so great that 1t would
nave had a corresponding influence
on the surrounding countries"
Mr.. Morgenthau declared that in
the recent Near East trouble the
Turks had absolutely nothing at
stake. as Turkey had no commerce.
The Turks" he asserted. ARE simp-
ly a band of marauders and they
have never been anything different.
They have lived like parasites on
the people they found in their coun
try. They have developed 10 art,
no education, no commerce. They
depend upon the Armenians. Greeks,
Jews and Syrians.
when the Turks defeated the
Greeks" the speaker said, they did
not demonstrate to the world any
great degree of fighting ability. They
conquered rather through the weak
ness of the Grecians and their folly
than through their own strength and
resourcefulness.
1.-THE Turks were aiming at Ath-
ems" declared the speaker, who then
gave an impressive description of a
series Of tragedies which would
have occurred had the victorious
Turks been allowed to penetrate to
their goal.
"If they had been allowed to cross
what would have happened? The
Bulgarians would have risen. They
were just waiting to rise. And the
Germans, who were just waiting an
opportunity to throw off their obli7
cations of paying r~eparations, would
have come to the conclusion that the
Allies would be so weak that a stroke
from them would have started the
war over again."
The former ambassador praised
the part which Great Britain had
taken. Civilization was going to be
saved. he said, because Britain had
planted better than she knew. 1t
made his blood boil to hear the
Turks talked about as fine soldiers.
He had charge of the British pris-
oners at the Dardanelles, and knew
something of the Turkish methods.
II ought to have had fifteen or twen-
ty thousand, and l never had over
340." Why, because they murdered
them. They never took any prison
ers. Down at Gallipoli they muir
dered everyone that came into Their
hands, and week after week l used
to receive the most pitiful letters
asking if I could find a son, husband
or father. I could not, because they
had been killed.
Mr.. Morgenthau challenged those
who maintained that the Turks were
not out to destroy and kill the Chris
tians within their domains. "At the
Inauguration of the last holy war
the Turks declared: We shall de-
stroy every Christian within the con-
fines of Turkey They had TO aban-
don that holy war because they real
lied that their allies, the Germans
and Austrians, were also Christians
But today they have no Christian
allies, and when they notified h
world that they did not think they
could restrain their soldiers when
they came into Smyrna, that was an
absolute notice that there were go
ing to be massacre and destruction.
"Our acceptance of the mandate
would have changed all of this" Mr..
Morgenthau asserted. Under our
control in moral guidance the Turks
could not have forced the issue and
regained a foothold in Europe"