in the internal
affairs of Turkey, though at the time there was not a single branch of
Turkish industries, railways, telegraphs, armies, navies over which she
had not complete control, exercising it precisely as she thought fit.

It is useless, then, to base any confidence in the safety of Jews,
Greeks, and Arabs from suffering the same fate as the Armenians, on a
veto from Germany. If it suits Germany to let those unfortunate peoples
be murdered or deported to agricultural colonies, Germany will assuredly
not stir a finger on their behalf nor prevent a repetition of the
horrors I have dealt with in the previous chapter. Sooner than risk her
hold over Turkey by enforcing unacceptable demands, she will, unless
other considerations of self-interest determine her, let further
massacres occur, if Talaat Bey insists on them. That spokesman of her
policy, Ernst Marre, makes this perfectly explicit in his book, _Die
Tuerken und Wir nach dem Kriege_, upholding from the German standpoint
the right of Turkey and the wisdom of Turkey in dealing with her subject
peoples as she had dealt with the Armenians. 'The Turkish State,' he
tells us, 'is no united whole: Turks, Arabs, Greeks, Armenians, Kurds,
cannot be welded together.' (This, by a somewhat grim and ominous
coincidence, is in exact accordance with a remark made to a Danish Red
Cross Sister by a Turkish gendarme then engaged in massacring Armenians:
'First we get rid of the Armenians,' he said, 'then the Greeks, then the
Kurds.') Or again, in defence of the Armenian massacres, 'Only by
energetic interference and by expelling of the obstinate Armenian
element, could the Ottoman Empire get rid of a Russian dominion.' Or
again, 'The non-Turkish population of the Ottoman Empire must be
Ottomanised.' Here, then, is the German point of view: the Ottoman
Government will be right to 'dispose of' its subject peoples as it
thinks fit. So far from interfering, Germany endorses, and German
influence to-day is all that stands between 'the murderous tyranny' and
its subject peoples. French, English, and finally American pressure can
no longer, since the entry of these nations into the war, be exercised
within the frontiers of the Ottoman Empire, and the only protection of
defenceless aliens is the German Government. It did not stir a finger to
save the Armenians, until it saw that depopulation threatened the
prosperity of its industries, and it is idle to expect that it will do
more if the