The Washington times., 1922-10-22
BY LOVAT FIR 4ASER---
(Engsh Critic and Writer On International PcliHcs)
Conflict Between British and Turks Would Set All Europe and Asia
Ablaza Words Of Solemn Warning He Asks Whether the Govern
men is Backed by WAR Profieers Who Realize Where Provocative
Policy is Heading Believes Women Like Wars Excitement

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DO not be delfied by the folish
braggarts who say that, II We come
into collision with the Turks it
will only be an affair OF few
skirmishes.i II once again we get
into death-grips with the Turks we
shall light a confiagration which
viii spread like q prairie fire from
the Rhine to, the Ganges., One
after another, the little and big
nations will be drawn into" the
arena. . and the war which may be.
gin in q silly and premature squsb-
BILE about the Straits will set all
Europe and hall. Of Asia by the
ears.
' Do you think Germany will re-
main quiet n half the British army
II. concentrated ON the coast Of
Asia Minor. beyond ."the windy
plains Of Troy'" ... e.,.....
Marshal Foch has declared that
1t viii take 100000 men to hold
the. country round Chanak, the
town on the Asiatic shore Of the
Straits from which we ought to
withdraw at once. a. the French
have done. I believe his 'calcula-
. ton lis an underestimate. We
shall have India ablaze very
quickly, for the Indian MosIems.
who were loyal enough last time,
will not sit down quietly If We en-.
ter upon. an unjust and unright.
eous war with the Turks.
When we are deeply involved. the
Russian Bolshevists will unques.
,tionably move against Poland and
Rumania. We shall precipitate q
conflict which will eventually in.
volve much Of the Old World. We
may get over the last war. We
shall never get over the next one.
for IL Europe takes up arms again
Western civilization viii perish.
A war Of the dimensions which
the government is risking will cost
US at least 10.o0o. .00o. 900 before II
ends. II win last for years, and
will -assuredly necessitate O fresh
) conscrfption. How our ministers
can persist in their provocative
policy when the very Turks are
crying out for peace passes com.
prehension.
AN IMMENSE GRAVEYARD.
will not say much about the
peculiar form Of iunacy which has
selected Chanak as possible bat.
tleground in defiance OF the best
military opinion in Europe. Just
across the Straits. in the Gallipuli
peninsula stand the immense
graveyards Of our dead. bearing
silent witness to the foolishness of
electing to fight on the edge Of a
seabeach. -...
Our strategists are already for
getting the most elementary les
sons of the great war. What do
they hope to. do at Chanak IL the
Turks Join issue, as, the more i'm
petuous among Mustapha Kemai's
subordinates may do any ~dayr
Our troops must either suffer
themselves to be beleagued on the
landward side, or they must drive
the Turks back and march into the
interior until they come to grief,
as the Greeks have done.
1t will be Napoleon in the Span
fish peninsula again, Townsend's
unfortunate force on the Tigris.
Winston Churchill's fatal thrust In.
to Russia from the Arctic circle.
And to what end?
The effort to flake" a new war
can have no other meaning than
that It is a reckless attempt 10
cover up and disguise the dis
astrous failure OF the governments
policy OF melting the Greeks TO
make war in Asia Minor. Our
ministers prefer to send the young
manhood Of the country into battle
again rather than be found out.
The talk OF the freedom Of the
Straits Is pretence.
Again and again the Turkish
leaders have said they are willing
that the Straits shall be neutral.
ICED and unfortified. They have
even said as much in their national
pact framed at Ansora in January,
1920. ... ........
But . peaceful settlement viii
not suit our government. They
want war and seem determined 10
foster II, and they will 20 on war.
nongering until the electors adopt
the late Lord Fishers advice and
decide to Sack the Lot"