And all the ingenuity of the Wilhelmstrasse would not be able to find an answer to that.

I do not say that Germany wanted the massacres, for she did not.  She wanted more agricultural labour, and I think that, if only for that reason, she deprecated them.  But she allowed them to go on when it was in her power to stop them, and all the perfumes of Arabia will not wash clean her hand from that stinking horror.

Here, then, are some of the problems which those who, at the end of the war, will have to deal with the problem of Turkey must tackle.  It is just as well to recognise that at the present moment Turkey is virtually and actually a German colony, and the most valuable colony that Germany has ever had.  It will not be enough to limit, or rather abolish, the supremacy of Turkey over aliens and martyrised peoples; it will be necessary first to abolish the supremacy of Germany over Turkey.  To do this the victory of our Allied Nations must be complete, and Germany’s octopus envelopment of Turkish industries severed.  Otherwise we shall immediately be confronted with a Germany that already reaches as far as Mesopotamia.  That is done now; and that, before there can come any permanent peace for Europe, must be undone.  Nothing less than the complete release of that sucker and tentacle embrace will suffice.

NOTE

As throwing a sidelight on the German complicity in the Armenian massacres, the following is of interest.  It is known that when Metternich succeeded Wangenheim as German Ambassador in Constantinople, he brought with him a speech, written in Berlin, which, by the Kaiser’s orders, he was to read when presenting his credentials to the Sultan.  This contained a sentence which implied that Germany had been unable to stop the Armenian massacres.  Talaat refused to allow the speech to be read, obviously because it threw the responsibility of the massacres on to the Turks, whereas the accepted opinion in Turkey was that they took place with the connivance and even at the instigation of the Germans.  Eventually a compromise was arrived at, and the speech in toto was read privately, the part referring to the Armenian massacre not being published....  It is a pity that Germany is always found out....

Crescent and Iron Cross, Chapter VI

‘THY KINGDOM IS DIVIDED’

Let us commit the crime of lese-majeste, and assume (though the Emperor Wilhelm II. has repeatedly announced the contrary) that Germany is not at the conclusion of the European War to find herself in possession of the world.  She has prepared her plans in anticipation of the auspicious event; in fact she has had a most interesting map of Europe produced which, except by its general shape, is scarcely recognisable.  The printing of it, it is true, was a little premature, for it shows what Europe was to have been like in 1916, and the apportionments