Evening star., 1922-09-02
Enver Pasha's Death Recalls Fate
of Turkish Empire.

Those who take the sword shall
perish by the sword sagely COM
ments the New York Post, in dis
cussing the deaths by violence of.
first, Talaat Pasha, slain in Berlin;
Djemal Pasha, slain in Tifis, and
now Enver Pasha. slain In Bokhara-
That also is about the way In which
the newspapers of the country dis
miss the man who. because OF Ger
man gold and promises OF power,
forced Turkey into the world war on
the side of the central powers. The
death of Enver. the military genius
of the new Turkish forces, recalls
the part he played In the overthrow,
ing of Abdul Hamid in 1908 and
the further fact that had the latter
continued in power Turkey would
have been held steadfast to the allied
cause and the entire complexion OF
the earlier stages of the war might
have been changed.
man military mission a free hand
in Turkey before the war" recalls
the New York Post, and 1t was
Enver who, as practical dictator,
when Djemal opposed the turkish
entry upon the German side. exiled
u.
ment had much of promise in 1t
and the hero of Adrianople in 1919
seemed to have qualities that typl-
fed this promise. When he became
the head of pro-Germanism Turkeys
doom was written"
Enyer. the Brooklyn Eagle says.
was at once the brainiest and the
most contemplate of the three lead
ers. We do not know whether the
ottoman power has any future in
the near east; probably 1t has none
in Europe; But its ta future .,ts II 1t mas mas
donment dom Of ali that savors of the
spirit and policy of Enver Pashs and
the triumvirate of architects of dis
have been Ginghis Khan If
modernity had not fi1ea .h limits esrse TO ms ns
ambition" which dominated him
from scullion to ruler, In the opinion
Of the Newark News, which believes
that "the tragedy of such misspent
life is that Enver had his oppor,
tunity to regenerate Turkey, ana
his country the greatest reproacn
II ever experienced. The Armenian
massacres celebrated the 'betrothal
of his Turkish barbarism to tunker-
thum's schrecklichkeit."
The Boston Transcript suggests
Z
from his proud estate, his fall Is no
greater than that of the once mighty
Turkish empire itself. In the heyday
Of the late Enver Pasha's power the
sultan's empire was numbered among
the worlds greatest. and It's accession
to the cause Of the Hohenzollerns de-
servedly brought jubilation and re-
is but a shadow of its former, self. and
the French, British or Greek flag now
flies over some of its fairest prov
inces, This is the price that Turkey
has paid for the war so debonairly
declared by Enver Pasha and his col
leagues" ~.
longed the conflict not less than two
years" the Boston Christian Science
Monitor holds, and 1t says that he
dreamed to be Islam's Napoleon; ne
became a German lieutenant with the
appearance Of b boulevardier and the
habits Of a Borgia. The moral to DC
pointed is as brief as inevttab!e:
III shonesty is the worst policy. In
the opinion of the Watertown STAND
ard. ."he seems to have been as free
as any man in history from all sense
of ethical obligations; q disgrace to
the ottoman race, and a blot on hu-
manity."
Rightly referred 70 as ONO oi Sne
most romantic and adventurous ng
kansas Democrat points out that En-
yer paid the usual penalty Of
military adventurer trying to play
both ends against the middle. He
died lust as he. had lived--no one
seemed to know with just what party
or nation he was aligned. and ms
the Kansss City Journai
holds ..wfli be the mountainous heaps
Of men. women and children he
cansed to be slaughtered. and that
monument Will be raised on the
wreckare Of his own ruined coun-
try" HIS robbery Of the Turkish
treasury was . very small part OF MIS-
aid recalls Ia suggesting thht no
sultan had more power over the lives.
Of his subjects than had this car
penter,s son. His story y romance