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Show 't: WOULD SPLIT ASIA : INTO MANY STATES L. PHILADELPHLA.. May 2. "The east-em east-em question is the :host that stalks 11 through the halls in which the nations are assembled in conference, and there Is only one of the great powers that can address the ghost the United Spates," declared Morris Jastrow, Jr., of the Uni-versiiy Uni-versiiy of Pennsylvania in an address on "The Ottoman Turk and the Future of i Turkey in Asia Minor," at the opening session of the American Ac?demy of Po- s- litical and Social Science today. :' - "The other great powers, England. France, Germany, Russia, Italy and Aus- - - tria-Hungary." he said, "are responsible for the fact that the ghost has not been j laid. Turkey in Europe would have dis- ! A-T. appeared at least five decades ago had J it not been for the rivalry among the j c European powers for possession of the! . anticipated spoils. ; "With the end of the war another op- ! r" portunity is presented for solving the j Turkish question on the basis of principle j ; . instead of diplomatic expediency. The , ,r. obvious solution is to split Asia Minor ,: into a variety of states." |