l 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 are not borne out by facts. But assuming that there is
some radical error about it all from her point of vi