New-York tribune., 1922-10-06
Britain's Check
On L IulrkI.ataded
By Morgentl,aal
World Civilization Saved in
Last Two Weeks by Firm
Attitude Taken in London,
Says Former Ambassador
Draws Moral for Bankers
Serves Notice Financiers
Here Must Not Remain
Aloof at Such Times

Declaring that Great Britain had
during the last two years saved the
civilization OF the world in preventing
the Turks from running amuck IN
Thrace. Henry Morgenthau, former
American Ambassador to Turkey, ap-
pealed to the bankers gathered yester-
day at the meeting Of the trust COM
pany division Of the American Bankers
Association ia realize that you are
the guardians of civilization, as well
as Great Britain, and that we have to
stand back of it and do our share"
Dir. Morgenthau, Just. returned from
Europe, said that general European
conflict might have started had not the
British halted the Turks where and
when they did.
IF the Turks had been permitted to
enter Thrace, not peacefully as they
Insy be permitted to do in a few weeks,
but as war-like nation and with the
determination to crush the Greeks"
said Mr.. Morgenthau, "the Buigarians
would have risen, they would have had
revolution. and il seems to me thxs
the Germans would have taken courage
and would have said, .If Kemal, with
his few untutored soldiers can make a
stand against the united Allies, why
can't we do it p
Calls Turks Boil In Balkans
Mr. Morgsnthan, after characterizing
Turkey as this fostering Loil in the
Balkans, which does not seem to be
durable, which will some day have TO
be destroyed before you can have com
plete peace in the Balkans" presented
an outline Of the factors underlying the
Far Eastern disturbance, and an analy-
sis of the position OF the defeated
Central Powers and of the dangers in
the situation.
He said: These people divided Tur-
key among themselves. Great Britain,
France, Italy and Greece They did
not know the psychology of the Turks
and did not know how the Turk was
living and on how little he cold live
and in what a desperate economic state
he was. Ali these other peoples had
commerce and industry to protect and
preserve. The Turk had nothing of
the kind.
"The Turk, when he found cut that
these other countries were following
up what had been going on for ten
years or more, and how he had lost
Govinia and Bosnia and Bulgaria and
Greece and Rumania, and that now he
was to lose a number of other terrific
ries and sections of land, he simply
this committee Of thirty-odd) retired
to Constantinople and considered what
TO do. The world didn't consider that
it was of much Importance, but those
men concluded that although the Brit
ish and French has the Sultan in
Constantinople and that he was
ready to approve of the treaty; that
they would start a revolution and
rebel; they would not assent to this
treaty; they would resort again to what
they had done repeatedly--a system of
anarchy, and set up their own govern
ment in Angora-which they did.
Criticizes Greek Leadership
".As you probably know, the Turk
defeated the attempts of France to
secure a firm hold in Turkey. Franco
made the treaty of Angora and agreed
in that treaty that she would not fight
the Turk. Italy also made treaty in
which she agreed to turn over her mu-
nitions which she had in Turkey, and
not to fight against the Turks. Greece,
that was making this great fight, en-
couraged by the other powers at the
beginning, had to fight on and was de-
iented, not because the Greek army
was weak, but because King Constan-
tine took control of the government
ard replaced a very able general by
one whom / am reliably informed
though l have not the absolute evil
dence, was an inmate Of a lunatic asy-
iun for two and half years. This man
Immediately removed all the good gem
erals and officers that Venizelos had
put there, and, furthermore, told them
that within a month they would be
back in Athens with their wives and
sweethearts. They returned to Athens,
but not in the way the general thought
they would.
"The Turks pursued these men.
There is no question that the Greeks