Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 259, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 November 1917 — GREEK WILL FILL "SHOES" OF TURK [ARTICLE]

GREEK WILL FILL "SHOES" OF TURK

Prof. Andreade, Athens, Says Countrymen Cover Region Down to Dardanelles. WOULD BE BARTO GERMANS Hellenic Preponderance in Constantinople and Adrianople Basis for Claim—Principle ot» Nationality Hitherto Ignored. Athens. —If the Turk is to leave Europe, as the entente allies have required in their war terms, then there is a well defined belief in the Balkans that two results will occur of high importance to Greece and all Europe: ~ 1. That the Greek inevitably will succeed the Turk throughout Thrace and in the whole region down to the Dardanelles and the Bosphorus. 2. That • a new zone of territory friendly to the entente will thus be stretched horizontally straight across the Balkans as a barrier to ths German dream of making the Balkans a German high road to the Orient. J Professor Andreade of the University of Athens, one of the foremost authorities on international affairs relating to the Balkans, holds this view, and in the course of a talk he explained how these two results would naturally come about in the final peace adjustment, by reason of the principle of nationalities now accepted by the entente allies as a basis for territorial readjustment. Points to Greek Predominance. Professor Andreade, who is a specialist on the extent cf Greek’citizenship beyond the Greek frontiers —in Macedonia and the other Balkans, in Turkey, Syria and Asia Minor —pointed out the great predominance of the (xreeks in the regions to be evacuated by the Turks if the/ are to leave Euro P®The whole vilayet, or province. of Adrianople, extending from the Balkans down to Constantinople, he declared, is as much Greek as it is Turk and with the Turks out it is practically all Greek. “Even Constantinople,’’ he said, “is a Greek city—the largest of - Greek. cities —with a population of '350,000 Greeks. That gives an idea of the extent of Greek citizenship in all this section down to the straits, which will have to be considered, on the basis of nationality and race, when the Turk leaves Europe. -“That is why I say,” added Professor Andreade, “that if the Turk is to withdraw, the principle of nationality, which recognizes the racial condlMon of a community, will lead to the recognition of Greek paramount influence in that section. Thus far, the principle of nationality has been ignored and violated in all Balkan settlements, and force has prevailed. Austria and pulgaria have not occupied any of the territory annexed in recent years by reason that their race or nationality prevailed in these sections, but solely by reason of their military force. That has been the cause of the endless wars in the Balkans, for people are never satisfied when their race is Ignored and they are attached to a foreign conqueror by force.” Two Barriers to Germany. Professor Andreade, referring to the Balkan map, showed how the readjustment of Balkan boundaries, based on nationalities, would interpose two barriers to Germanic expansion toward Asia Minor and the Orlent—one. the Greek zone across Thrace, and another, the Serb-Roumanian link of territory which lies as a dam between Hungary and Bulgaria. This SerbRoumanian link is only fifty miles

across, but with Rouinania getting the Banat region, to which Professor Andreade says she is entitled by the principle of nationality, this entente link will be 150 miles across. “And thus entente Europe can accomplish what it chiefly seeks in the Balkans,” said Professor Andreade, “friendly entente zones intercepting the natural route of Germanic expansion toward the Orient, and this can be* accomplished, not by forces but by the principle of nationality now accepted by the entente powers.”