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Show THE CITIZEN 7 THE MOSLEM MONSTER By F. P. Gallagher HE Cicilian massacre has revealed, as if in a mirror, the hideousness of the European allies to them' selves. The moral obliquity which has prevented them from meting out swift and terrible justice to the Turks stands unmasked. For the first time since the armistice they have a burning sense of shame and are grouping their warships and uttering tious menaces in an effort to rehabilitate their reputation before the wprld. It is a game of disguise often played before by the European nations when confronted by Turkish atrocities. For 'ages the Ottoman has deserved the death sentence, which has been delayed by the jealousies and perfidies of the European powers. the Middle IN were more Ages the Europeans frank. They under- stood, better than we, that there could be no peace between the East and West so long as the Turks were ' slaughtering Christians and overrunning Europe. And so they preached the crusades and went nobly forth into Asia Minor to overwhelm the Turk before he could obtain a footing in Europe. The crusades were a success, if not a complete triumph. They wore down the Moslem and prevented him from capturing Constantinople until the middle of the fifteenth cen- tury. At high tide the Turks assailed Vienna as late as 1682, but after that their power waned and they fell back upon a device which they have used again and again to the discomfiture and defeat of mighty, proud, civilized Europe. Holding fast to Constantinople, the key of the East, they have played off one European nation against another. Whenever it seemed good to them they slew Christians by the thousands and mocked European threats. The wily Ottoman argued that so long as he maintained his grip on Constantinople he could defy the world. For centuries he has clung to this policy, which is simplicity itself. Whenever some European power began to extend an acquisitve claw toward Stamboul the Ottoman could rely on obtaining the aid of some other European power. Like dogs the Europeans made a ring around the Turkish hound and bit one another while he coolly held the bone in his paws. The Crimean war brought British and French armies swarming to help the Moslem possessors of Constantinople against the attacks of the has been understood for more than a thousand years and that the people possessing the city have held within their, grasp the.' keys of the east and west Despite the development world and the new routes Orient by way of the ocean Constantinople maintains its ance as a doorway between and Asia. Europeans could not agree any of their number should have Constantinople; therefore, Turkey kept it and, like Mexico on our side of the world, scoffed at every protest. It is unnecessary to discuss the reasons that make Constantinople such a strategic stronghold.It is sufficient to know that its. strategic value the the to canals, import- Europe are THERE chief those who believe that cause of the late war was Constantinople. Germany began the war with three objectives in view, and they may be designated as immediate, intermediate and ultimate. The immediate objecsuccess was a military tive which should give her the control of Europe, the intermediate was the annihilation of Great Britain, the ultimate the commercial and military control of the world. The German navy did not appear strong enough at the beginning of the war to bring about the downfall of Great Britain. First it was necessary to obtain control of Belgium and northern France so as to dominate the continental side of the English channel. It was likely that in the first war Germany would attain this purpose, but that she must fight another war to sweep the British from the seas. But there was- an alternative. If Germany could sieze or, at least control, the Constantinople gateway it could open up a permanent commercial and military route to Asia that would be as good as Great Britains sea route. Thence came the bold conrailception of the way and the war which was to take German armies to the Persian Gulf and into Egypt and India. This would mean possession of the Suez canal and great ports on the Persian gulf. Thus would Great Britain be undermined and destroyed. Germany Jailed. Remote and immediate objects went by the board. Great Britain, with the aid of the United States and France, kept her supremacy of the sea, her power over the sea routes and her domination of nearly half the people of the earth. - Berlin-to-Bagda- d all that was as it should Americans, even in their disillusion, do not wish that the result had been otherwise. After all, the newT world is young and the future is before us. Perhaps the Europeans, battling with their double perHyde sonality, their Dr. demon, will conquer the evil and live by and for the good. PERHAPS Jekyl-and-M- THE of r. and Shantung, Turkey symbol of all that is worst in European statecraft. At Versailles the allies put off the Turkish problem to the last. They realized that it would prove to be the most difficult of all. The question LIKE a Fiume was, the old mocking question, is to have Constantinople? Who They knew that when the time came to make up their minds there would be a disagreement. And the Turk knew. He had always known it. It was a part of his national consciousness. Therefore, he would continue to massacre the Armenians, the Greeks or any other folk that stirred his blood-lusWhat the Turk looked for came to pass. The allies could not decide who should have Constantinople. At length they gave up in despair and confessed themselves beaten. They would apply the old solution. The Turk could continue to rule in Stamboul. Rejoicing in his triumph the Turk sent his soldiers into Cilicia to fight the French and massacre the Armenians. Sixteen thousand men, women and children were slain after thousands of them had been burned and otherwise tortured. t. MEANWHILE the allies were their plans with a hypocrisy that was appalling. Turkey was to have no navy. She had been so wicked and cruel that she must be deprived of her warships. True, the warships were already at the bottom of the sea, but what of that? Was she to have an army? Yes, but the army these are the words of the dispatches the army would be compelled to remain on the Asiatic side of the Bosphorus. The allies had agreed that they would compel the Turkish army fo remain where the slaughtering was abundant, where the hunting was best. The allies would not compel the Moslem army to slay the Christians, but would keep the Christians disarmed and under Turkish sovereignty. If the Turks should kill the Christians the allies would be pained and annoyed. 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