Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1923-04-19
CORNELL PROFESSOR TELLS OF
NAT|0NAL|Sm IN THE NEAR EAST
AT INSTITUTE MODERN HISTORY
Especial to Kennebec JournaD

NSpcCldl 10 AenncDGC JOurndl)
Brunswick, Me-. April 1S.-"Nation-
alism in the Near East" was the sub
Jcct of the lecture delivered at Memo
rial hall this evening by Professor Will
liam l.. Westermann Of Cornell Univer-
sity in the series of lectures being de-
iivered at the Institute Of Modern His
tory which is being held at Bowdoin
College.
Professor Westcrmann, who was the
adviser on Turkish affairs and chief of
the division of Western Asia on the
American commission to negotiate
peace was also delegate on the
Greek territorial commission at the
peace conference in Paris in 191S-1919,
and is considered one of the worlds
greatest authorities on Turkish and
Greek problems.
His address in part was as follows:
We live in period of disillusion.
Among those things which character
iZc our postwar mood is a mistrust
of the diplomacy which permitted the
Great War to arise and has been I'M
able TO minister successfully to the
new economic and political ailments
which the war left behind in various
vital parts of the worlds anatomy.
One must. in fairness to the diplo
| maj : recognize that their task of read
! justment after the war was much TOO
heavy for their powers. The war, and
the promises which war diplomacy ha
bred. had aroused a hundred diverse
desires of freedom among peoples big
and peoples little. Conflicting within
themselves. many of these must Of
hccrSSitH pe rtpreSsco. some or thein
! e"ulu re- ana WERE SAL iSilco' ana some
p"i ',a'lS Sd''Sllcu- IN Eufope 'Seli
me nouhdary ana tcrfltofial decisiohS
"''.h nave iS9ulleu from ne peace
conference an" It's commissions nave
| SHOWN Ierlhahehcy Whlch IS on the
""o'c ASTONISHING. ifSaruiiS thc
eoo''oi','c IeauJus'hieht ,iuch less can
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v,',Lost ~ ,h., sj.l r,i,idr., r,uld frs,
ana v.i,f, c,nIulrte s,,crnes tln,,t tb, dc.
..i.inn. ar th.. ,l;nInp,.,t. Of ,bo rrn,t
nnyrr. Il tn hr = princ,nal tonic Of M
addresses I'm.
ono n,,i,,,u rc.eun i, ,h,t no ia
,isinns m,,ln ~. r,;,I.r, ana ia
\n.,r I,,,, :, .,.,,.'.1 n.,,.n Lr IN
the worst that were made. They were
Predetermined in the carly years of
the war. and PREDETERMINED alon. the
lines Of traditional diplomacy based
upon Il type Of international avaricc
and dad faith which could only he
sanctioned by brute force able to
enforce such decisions. After the
war the powers concerned had not
!, the requisite internal strength to
carry out their plans.
The nnst-var weakness Of fine Al
iin, i; ono r,.lsnp fnr ma ,n,nnl.tc
lre,l, l,,,n i, III ,r,,atv u,tL 'rur-
key. called thr Treaty. of Srvrns ana
signed upon August 10. 1870. 1t has
meyer received the sanction of the
Turkish Parliament. Il necessary
step in its ratification. In Il sense,
therefore it has never been a treaty.
The second reason lies in the I'M
have found in a new feeling. the
feeling that they were a nation. Xxx
Almost any person who writes or
speakes with authority upon the
problems of the Near East will APP
proach these from a definite angle
and with certain prcconcoptions. The
outstanding points of approach are
four:
Tho first is That approach which
justifes Western Imperialism on the
plea that We of the West are the
most highly civilized peoples of the
world today and have. in our Western
Christian culture. goods of civliza-
ton which warrant us in ruling the
peoples of the Near East. and max
ing them accept these good things.
In return lor these poons' western
people take the raW-products OF the
countries which arc beng CIVILIZED