The Turkish victory in diplomacy must to-day be conceded. It ranks with Allenby's military victory, and no doubt gives them a free hand in their domains for the future. The diplomats have talked about the protection of minorities, removal of religious disqualifications and the like, but will the net result be any improvement on what the Young Turks aimed at before the war? These aims have been summarized one of the latest volumes of the official history of Australia in the war, and they seem well worth quoting to-day. The particular paragraph to which we would re-for is as follows The declared policy of the Young Turks was far more ambitious, deliberate and menacing (than Abdul Hamid's), It aimed at nothing less than absolutely purging the Empire of every individual who was not a Turk. The race in future was to be a pure Turkish race, speaking and writing only the Turkish language, and worshipping only according to the Moslem faith. The alien millions of Greeks, Armenians and Jews, who represented most of the brains, the business capacity and the industry of the country, were to be killed off or driven out, This monstrous conception was the more amazing because of its origin. It came from men who were still being applauded as inspired and heroic reformers. Tt did not have its birth in religious fanaticism or in o'd ingrained caste prejudice, The men who declared that policy have for the most part gone, but these were the men who led Turkey into the war on Germany's side and under whom the present leaders were trained. What hope, then, for peace in Turkey in the future?
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