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Show GREEKS JUST AS BAD, SAYS LONDON PROF Sees Atrocities Against the Turkish Peasants and Their Wives BY MTLTON BRONNER-NEA BRONNER-NEA Scrvk" Stair Correspondent. LONDON, Oct. 13. A solemn warning warn-ing to American churchmen seeking i government action in the Near East i has been given by Arnold Toynbee. I professor of Greek at London unl-verslty. unl-verslty. In an oxcluslve interview with I NEA service. Prof. Toynbee Is the author of several sev-eral books on the Near East question ques-tion and was the British government adviser on Turkish matters at the, Versailles peaco c.nfcrence. "America Is doing wonderful work In the Near East." ho said, "but caro muFt bo taken to base It strictly uponj humanitarian grounds, rather than religious or racial. INTERFERENCE MAY AGGRAVATE "Any attempt of America or Europe Eur-ope to call the present Asia Minor, situation a struggle between tho cross and the crescent Christianity versus' Mohammedanism, civilization agalnRtj barbarism may aggravate the complicated com-plicated crisis. "People must remember that the neighboring races of the Noar East are neither all devils nor all angels Their behavior depends upon who Is the top dog. "I edited tho famous Bryco report on Armenian atrocities and therefore had under my eyes documentary evidence evi-dence of what the Turks did to Armenians. Ar-menians. But last fall I was in Asia Minor when tho Greeks were still wlnnlne ind 1 found the Greeks were perpetrating atrocities ogalnst Turkish peasants and their wives. "I ' personally saw Greeks loot houses, burn villages, and shoot inhabitants. in-habitants. And I have reason to believe be-lieve thero were worso outrages. "If we now ral.st an outcry against: tho Turks and keep silent about tho conduct of the Greek army In the recent re-cent retreat. It will inflame every Turk! In Asia Minor "Tho Turks will say we hate themi and declaim against them not because of their conduct but because of their religion and race And they will ask why wo close our eyes to similar wrongs perpetrated by fellow Christians. Chris-tians. "The fact Is that great wrongs havo been committed by both sides. One of Mustapha Kemal's cabinet ministers minis-ters recognized this when he recently said It would bo a good thing to move all Greeks and Armenians out of Turkish territory and all Turkish citizens out of European territory. In other words he would exchange one population for the other so that in each territory would be all one peo ple Instead of conflicting races. "I bellove this should be done And nobody could moro perfectly superintend superin-tend such a transfer than tho Am-I Am-I erlcan Relief association. This or-1 or-1 ganlzatlon has everybody's confidence. Tho Turks know the Americans have no territorial or political ambitions in that quarter of the world and they would absolutely trust tho Americans If religion wero subordinated. "Transferring these populations would be moro efficacious than attempting at-tempting by treaty to secure guarantees guaran-tees of the safety of racial minorities. In tho latter case the causes of fric- tlon and conflict would always remain" re-main" c |