East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1922-09-27
People Here and There


/ ians and French began to rejoice a
the success of Mustafa Kennel Pasha
For the Italians the smashing of tn
Greeks meant the elimination of
/ possible rival in the Eastern Mediter
. ranean. A strong and united Greece
could not be tolerated as a neighbor
especially since the Greeks SHOWED
great aptitude in the carrying trade
undertaking the Italian mercantil,
. marine.
For the French the ruin of Greel
hopes meant the checking of Il dia
bolical scheme of Mr.. Lloyd George tC
make England supreme in the Neal
East by using the Greeks as dummy
holders Of Constantinople and the re.
lsources of Western Asia Minor.
Another strong influence at work
in France against Greece and the
Treaty of Sevres was that of General
Dyautey, military governor of Moroc.
leo, who went personally to Paris to
urge that the way to pacify Morocco
land to retain French sovereignty in
the other North African colonies was
for the French government to back
Mustafa Kemal, in the eyes of the Mo-
hammedan world, defending the Kha-
lif of the Faithful (the Turkish SUI
ltan) against Greek aggression?
! This argument was used by the
Turkish supporters in England, VINO
declared that enforcement of the Trea-
| ty of SeVres was madness for England
the greatest Mohammedan power in
the world.
Weight was added to this argument
by the publication of a letter from the
British viceroy, stating that backing
the Greeks against the Turks was
making the problem of pacifying In
dia virtually impossible. The 10 mil
lion Mohammedans of India stood SOL
! idly behind the Turkish nationalists.
FOrce-Islam creed.
There is only one form of prestige
that counts with the Mohammedans
the prestige of force. If they get the
idea into their heads that they can
play one master against another,
there is no telling what they will 90
while they are running amucK.
This is seen at the present moment.
owing to French and Italian intrigues
at Angora, Mustafa Kemal has the bit
in his teeth. The entente powers can
pull on the reins all they want to. 1t
is too late. They are dealing with a
runaway horse.
He WILL of course, sooner or later
come to the end of his strength and
go to smash. But may he not bring
to grief with him those who are try
ing now to pull him in.
If the events of the first fortnight or
September in Asia Minor had only t.
do with the discontinue of the Greeks
we m ght look upon them without bat
ting an eyelid. Armies have been.
thrashed before. The Turks have
long been massacring Christians and
yet the world has wagged on,
But l write from personal expert
ence, having just come from Asia Mi
nor and Constantinople when l say
that the Angora Nationalists represent
something far different from u group
of patriots valiantly retrieving the
lnisfortunes of their country.
Behind Mustafa Kemal Pasha
stands the Islamic world 10000, 900
strong, stretching across southern and
central Asia and northern and CEN
trail Africa. Behind the Islamic world
stands Soviet Russia. Behind Soviet
Russia, if they choose to do SO, stands
Germany and Japan.
Oh, the folly of France; Oh! the
folly of Italy! Oh, the folly of Eng
land! And-yes, must say it-Oh!
the folly of America!
We are all in the same boat, and the
waves are beginning to rock us hard.
In regard to Germany and Japan, l
put in a qualifying clause. The VIC
tory of the Kelnalists is of tremend-
Gus value to Japan. marking as 1t does
the defeat of European and Chris
tian people at the hands of an Asiatic
and non-Christian people. Its reper-
cusson in furthering the propaganda
of Asia for the Asiatics," which ia
pan is sponsoring, is incalculable.
Germany Again a Factor.
1t is of tremendous value, also, to
Germany, marking as It does the utter
of the European enemies of
Germany.
Germany took her greatest step for
fairs when NJ. Franklin Bouillon sign |
ed on behalf of France a treaty with !
the Angora Turks, promising to aid
them in getting the Greeks out of
Asa Minor and Thrace. She actually
did qualify for re-entry into world af-
fairs when Italy signed a similar trea-
ty with the Turks.
There is no truer. motto in the world (!
than "A house divided against itself |
cannot stand" How can the entente
alliance stand2
The kaiser is cackling at Doom.
Hindenburg and Ludendorf threw !
their hats in the air when they heard
of the recapture of Smyrna, and the
murder of Englishmen by the Turks
at Smyrna: and right beside 1t the
news that France had withdrawn her
troops from the Asiatic side of the
Bosphorue. For Is not the Djihad
(Holy War; at last coming to fall like
a ton of bricks upon the enemies Of