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TURKEY AND GREECE.
AN IMPARTIAL VERDICT Professor Arnold J. Toynbee has spent the past eight years in studying the con tact of civilisation in the Near and Middle East, Ho is Professor of Byzantine and Modern Great Language, Literataro and History at the University of London. addition to this, he was employed on Office up to and during the Peace Con 23/Turkish affairs in and for the Foreign Consequently he is peculiarly fitted to give an impartint inference of Paris.
verdict on one of the most equivocal, off international complications. But, besides all this wealth of equipment for his task, he has the incommunicable gifs of expres Įsion, sa" that the general fender as well as the student will find much to attract hi ia the admirably written pages of his published book "The Western Ques tion in Turkey and Greger." On the very first. page he points. to the truth behind. the truth the inner trading of a problem by no means, modern, but on the con- trary, old as"time, "
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THE SILADOW OF THE WEST. cavages, the author reminds us. per turbed by the waning of the moun never realise that it comes frora 'the shadow of their own planet. In precisely the sam way, we of the West deplore the shorts; comings of Eastern nations without realis ing that they are under our own shadow. Westernisation, in short, is by no means the panacea that so many popular, writers have made it appear. Western senti.) ment," says the author, "about the Grieks and Turks is for the most part it informed, violently expressed. and dangerously influential. It is an irresi ponsible revolutionary foren sigral instance of that fatal conjunction of un- consciousness and power which character- isra the modern Western attitude towards the rest of mankind."
This Western sentiment has inade of the modern Greek the descendant of Pericles, and of the modern Turks a barbarian Linenpable of progress. It is a point of view based on the three false antitheses of Chris tanity and falum, Europe and Asia. eivilisation and barbarism. The author shows conclusively that "Christian not the equivalent al *Wistern," and that Islam" does not imply necessarily 'any-negation of Westem ideals. As for the antithesis between "Europe", and "Asia" this volume proves in intimate detail that the Greeks are not specially at home in Europe, no the Turks in Asia,
On The third antithesis, the most widely spread. Professor Toynbee appena conclusively to history:
HELLENIC CIVILIZATION,
The Greeks have Hellen, the son of Deucaliot, as their father. while the Un- speakable.Turk is a omad from the steppes and shares the ndiuin of the) Seythinusthe"Mongol, and the Han. This is the greatest qousense of all. If it is! a question of physical trapsmission, our modern Greek contemporaries have about as tite Hellenic blood in their veinss our Osmanli contemporaries have of no nudic. If it is one of spiritun heritage,
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complacently dwelling on their super- iority to him they should compare them- selves with the Russians, a people of their own, Near Eastern civilisation, who came into contact with the West at about the same date as they and under_parallel conditions. Setting aside the Bolshevik of much more than what had been ac regime, itself a reaction against Western corded to her by treaty. She had made isation, he asks" why, apart from more good her treaty rights, while the Great material force and expansion, Russia, Powers had been content to waive theirs. both in literature and music, towers They had attacked the Turkish Nation above the heirs of Pericles. The secret ofalists when the Great Powers had stood, Russia's mental greatness appears to be aside. The Turks, on their side, had a that she has kept her spiritual individ right to draw similar conclusions: uality. While embracing the West:sle has refused to surrender herself to it entire the French and Italian zones; they had They, for their part, had got rid of ly. However this may be, the Greek even secured the retrocession by France suffers from Westernisation by being of a long strip of frontier territory, con puffed up, and the Turks. by being detaining the permanent way of prissel. One has been inflated through Baghdad railway, which the Treaty of our informed opinion, and the other Sevres bad included in the French man- depreciated even below his own quite dated territory of Syria; they had re |covered from Russia territories which she had taken from them in 1878; and they looked forward confidently to forcing the Greek army cut of Anatolia and the Allied garrisons out of Constantinople.
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to the West This, too, is equally mis. This was an unmistakable turn of the informed. By the manufactured irony,oltide. Which looked decadent? The West international polities and in the very or Turkey?" Freeth of the Entente Cordiale, Baris," the natural legatce. at Athenian culture, stands at the elbow of the Turk, while London, sp long the prop of that strenuoug sick man," finds herself the backer of the Greek. Consequently there and there has been something sinister in the self-confidence inspired in has been a widespread belief in the each by its powerful patroc of the West. Greek and Turkish armies that Great They did not suspect bow quickly Powers, like the ancient divinities, were pawns in distress become an embarrass supporting their favourites. In the Greek army the legend of French officers ent, or how little the players care if they disappear from the board. These th command of the enemy was at least Near and Middle Eastern nations are as persistent ps that legend of Bussian still inexperienced, and their backera troops in England at the commencement have never undeceived them!! Certainly of the Greek War. At first the legend the pawns have been in stress in made the Greeks more fiery: "We should Anatolia, and in the chapter entitled have got through the first day but for The Military Stalemate" the author the French and we shall get through now makes it abundantly clear how cruel the in spite of them.". But later on the passiva deception of the West has been to legend proved discouraging: "We are not both sides. Still more tragic is the long up against the Kemalists, but against the chapter on atrocities in which the author French," became a common, cry, and with views impartially the ruthle-mess of it the question, "How can we fight the Turk and Greck. And even in this the MISSTORA INDKUCHI, French? And when the author retura blight of Westernization has shown it ed from the Brusa front to Constantinople self Westernisation, in short, in the
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But both these smaller nations had con unity," rightly urging out the differen siderable excuse for self-reliance. In the tin treatment of Greek and Turks proves. autumn of 102 Greece was in possession the hopeloreness of 40le of these prin-
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