mpassion were not moved. Or,
possibly, if we incline to lenience, we may say that she was sorry for
the Armenians, but could not then risk a disagreement with their
murderers who were her allies, whereas now, feeling herself more
completely dominant over the Turks than she then did, she could risk
being peremptory, especially since there was that saving clause about
military requirements. For during the Armenian massacres, the
Dardanelles expedition was still on the shores of Gallipoli, and the
menace to Constantinople acute. It was possible that if she opposed a
firm front to the Armenian massacres, the Turks, already on the verge of
despair with regard to saving the capital from capture, might have made
terms with the Allies. But now no such imminence of danger threatened
them, and, with Germany's domination over them vastly more secure than
it had been in 1915, she could afford to treat them less as allies and
more as a conquered people. This alone might have accounted for her
unprecedented impulse of humanity in the minds of those who still
attribute such instincts to her, but she had far stronger reasons than
that for wanting to save the Jews of Palestine.

Her policy with regard to them is set forth in a pamphlet by Dr. Davis
Treitsch, called _Die Jueden der Tuerkei_, published in 1915, which is a
most illuminating little document. These Jewish colonies, as we have
seen, came from Russia, and as Germany realised, long before the war,
they might easily form a German nucleus in the Near East, for they
largely consisted of German-speaking Jews, akin in language and blood to
a most important element in her own population. 'In a certain sense,'
says Dr. Treitsch, 'the Jews are a Near Eastern element in Germany and a
German element in Turkey.' He goes on with unerring acumen to lament the
exodus of German-speaking Jews to the United States and to England.
'Annually some 100,000 of these are lost to Germany, the empire of the
English language and the economic system that goes with it is being
enlarged, while a German asset is being proportionately depreciated....
It will no longer do simply to close the German frontiers to them, and
in view of the difficulties which would result from a wholesale
migration of Jews into Germany itself, Germans will only be too glad to
find a way out in the emigration of those Jews to Turkey--a solution
extraordinarily favourable to the interests of all three parties
concerned.'

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