Martinsburg journal. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1920-1977, 1922-09-22
TURKS MUST Be PUT
OUT OF EUROPE TO
INSURE FUTURE PEACE
Angel OF DisCord Again On
Scene.
BY ]. BART CAMPBELL
N. S. staff Correspondent

Washington. Sept. 22-No mat.
ter if a temporary truce is patched
UP between the British and the
kemai.st Turks. peace will ever
hang by slender thread in the
Near East until Turkey is not only
pushed out of Europe entirely but
relegated to the status OF a second
rate and subordinate nation in
Asia Minor.
This was the opinion expressed
TO international News Service to-
day by Senator George H. Moses,
of New Hampshire, member OF the
Senate foreign relations commit
tee, whose eventful service as Am
erican Minister to Greece and
Monte Negro during the Taft ad.
ministration brought him in close
contact with the deep rooted relig
ious and political prejudces which
have made the Balkans and Asia
Minor the theatre of many bloody
conflicts.
The news from the Near East
is exactly the kind which a hun
dred years of experience leads to
expect when organized Turkish
armies come in contact with Chris
tian minorities," Senator Moses
said.
Smyrna Massacre Largest
"Tne only difference between the
present case of Smyrna and the
long recital of outraGes in Mace
donna, Armenia and other Turkish
dominions which has so repeatedly
shocked the Christian sensities is
the fact that the Smyrna episode
has cost much more lives and prop
erty at one bloody stroke--though
its appalling figures fall far below
that Of the aggregate which sum
up the Turkish atrocities toward
the Christian minorities upon
whom the Ottoman yoke has been
imposed.
In the present instant it is the
unhappy Greeks and helpless Ar
menians who are the principal vic
Tins but behind those is a long
procession of the same nationalit-
les together with innumerable Bull
garians, Serbs, Montenegrins and
Dalmatians who have suffered a
like fate.
America PoWerless
america seems powerless to
help except in sympathy. The mis-.
guided advice which led President
Wilson not to declare war upon
Turkey and Bulgaria in 1917, is
now bearing fruits. We occupy the
anomalous position Of having dip
lomatic relations with Turkey. In
consequence our governmental ac-
ton must be limited to such repre-
sensations as the state depart
mont may see fit to make to the
French, British and Italians, whose
covetous r,valries are the moving
cause Of the present disaster.
Discord Angel Appears
In former days it was Great
Britain and Germany who stroye
for the dominant position in the
Near East. 1t was hoped with the
final wiping out Of Tuyko.Germanic
alliance that Turkey would be
pushed from Europe and become
what she really should be, a second
class power in Asia But the angel
OF discord has again divided the
enemies Of the Turk and he seems
once more in fair way to reassert
himself and to reestabish himself
over the Christian minoritics whom
The world had hoped had been
freed from his yoke forever
THE illogical boundaries set up
by the numerous treaties which at
tempted to deal with the settle
ment of the Near East questions
must now disappear. If the United
States had joined the League Of
Nations, we would, however. be
bound now with men and money to
maintain those frontiers. We have
escaped from but We seem
nevertheless to be helpless