Turkey, a world problem of to-day
Talcott WilliamsWhen the Bulgarian massacres came in 1876, I addressed a wider audience from the editorial page of the New York World, when Marble, Hurlbert, Chamberlain, and Schuyler—fading figures now, once names to conjure with—made together perhaps the most brilliantly written "page" in American journalism. I have been writing and, more lately, speaking on Turkey ever since—newspaper, magazine, encyclopedia, hundreds of articles Through all these years I have been meeting inhabitants of the Turkish Empire, Arab, Syrian, Assyrian, Nestorian, Kurd, Armenian, Greek, Albanian, Turk old and new; and all these I knew in childhood in that distant land.
Suddenly, out of the cleared sky of national fate, the challenge came to the American people to assume the responsibility of a receivership for Constantinople, its little Thracian block of 11,000 square miles—New Jersey and Delaware in area, let us say—and Asiatic Turkey, a quarter as large as the United States between the oceans, a
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