and reducing it to the position of a vassal state.  To keep Turkey happy she allowed the Armenian massacres to run their deadly course, and only interfered with other massacres when they did not suit her purpose.  But supposing (to suppose the impossible) that a peace to the European War was dictated by Germany, how much of the future Pan-Turkish programme would be realised?  Would there be a Turkey at all?  I think not:  there would be a Germany in Europe, and a Germany in Asia, where Turkey once was.  Indeed, in all but name, they are in existence now; so complete, as we shall see, has been Germany’s penetration of the Ottoman Empire.  Just for the present she calls herself Turkey in those regions; that is her incognito.  But Turkey as an independent Power has already ceased to exist, and Tekin Alp and the Nationalists still dream on with rainbow visions of Ottomanisation, the vistas of which stretch far into Persia and the plains of the Volga.  And all the while she has been put out like a candle, and all that is left of her is the smouldering wick ready to be pinched between the horny fingers of her stepmother.  There she stands, her stepmother, with her grinning teeth already disclosing the Wolf....

Whatever the end of the European War may be, in no circumstances can the dreams of the Nationalists be realised.  Even if Germany and her arms were so victorious that Russia lay at her feet a mere inert carcase ready for the chopper, she would no more dream of giving Russian provinces to an independent Turkey than she would hand over to her Berlin itself.  And if, as we know, Germany can never be victorious, will the Allies once more strive to keep the Sick Man alive, or leave in his ruthless power the peoples whom he is longing to exterminate?  Even Tekin Alp can hardly expect that.

Here then, in brief, is the policy of New Turkey.  Its subject peoples—­Armenians, Arabs, Greeks, Kurds, and Jews—­are to be totally unrepresented in its councils, though together they number sixty per cent, of the population of the Empire.  But they are not only to be unrepresented in Government—­they are, if the programme is to be carried conclusively out, to have no existence.  In accordance with the plans of the murderous ruffians who to-day administer the Nationalist policy, those of the Armenians who have not fled beyond the frontiers have already been exterminated, and the same fate threatens Arabs, Greeks, and Jews.  Hence, when the Allied Governments wrote their joint note to President Wilson, they stated that among their aims in the war was ’the liberation of the peoples who now lie beneath the murderous tyranny of the Turks.’  From that avowed determination they will never recede.

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