“All I want is fifty million dollars,
    A champagne fountain flowing at my feet;
    J. Pierpont Morgan waiting at the table,
    And Sousa’s band a-playing while I eat.”

I will be quite candid in saying that I have small sympathy for Greece’s claims to these territories, not because she is not entitled to them on the ground of nationality—­for there is no denying that, in all of the regions in question, save only Albania and Thrace, Greeks form a majority of the Christian inhabitants—­but because she is not herself sufficiently advanced to be entrusted with authority over other races, particularly over Mohammedans.  The atrocities committed by Greek troops on the Moslems of Albania and of Smyrna, to say nothing of the behavior of the Greek bands in Macedonia during the Balkan wars, should be sufficient proof of her unfitness to govern an alien race.  I have already spoken in some detail of the reported Greek outrages in Albania.  But this was not an isolated instance of the methods employed in “Hellenizing” Moslem populations.  In the spring of 1919 the Peace Conference, hypnotized, apparently, by M. Venizelos, who is one of the ablest diplomats of the day, made the mistake of permitting Greek forces, unaccompanied by other troops, to land at Smyrna.  Almost immediately there began an indiscriminate slaughter of Turkish officials and civilians, in retaliation, so the Greeks assert, for the massacre of Greeks by Turks in the outlying districts.  The obvious answer to this is that, while the Greeks claim that they are a civilized race, they assert that the Turks are not.  The outcry against the Greeks on this occasion was so great that an inter-allied commission, including American representatives, was appointed to make a thorough investigation.  This commission unanimously found the Greeks guilty of the unprovoked massacre of 800 Turkish men, women and children, who were shot down in cold blood while being marched along the Smyrna waterfront, those who were not killed instantly being thrown by Greek soldiers into the sea.  High handed and outrageous conduct by Greek troops in the towns and villages back of Smyrna was also proved.  I do not require any further testimony as to the unwisdom of placing Mohammedans under Greek control, but, if I did, I have the evidence of Mr. Hamlin, the son of the founder of Roberts College, who was born in the Levant, who speaks both Turkish and Greek, and who was sent to Smyrna by the Greek government as an investigator and adviser.  He told me that the Greek attitude toward the Moslems was highly provocative and overbearing and that the Allies were guilty of criminal negligence when they permitted the Greeks to land at Smyrna alone.