than that of Turkey to Macedonia. And when the day of
defeat shall strike for the Turkey of the Near West, then shall an
assembled Europe remember the arguments of 1912-13 and a freed Ireland
shall be justified on the very grounds England to-day has been the
first to advance against a defeated Turkey.

"But the Turk is an Asiatic," say the English Bashaws: to which
indeed, Europe might aptly reply, "and are the English European or
non-European?" The moral argument, and the "Asiatic argument" are
strange texts for the desecrater of Christian Ireland to appeal to
against that continent which she would fain hem in with Malayan and
Indian battleships, and Canadian and Australasian dreadnoughts. Not
the moral argument, but the anti-German argument, furnishes the real
ground for the changed British attitude in the present war.

The moral failure of Turkey, her inability to govern her Christian
peoples is only the pretext: but just as the moral argument brings
its strange revenges and shows an Ireland that has suffered all that
Macedonia has suffered, and this at the hands of Christians, and not
of Moslems, so the triumph of the Balkan Allies, far from benefiting
Britain, must, in the end, react to her detriment.

The present apparent injury to German interests by the closing of
South-eastern Europe, and the road to Asia Minor, will inevitably
force Germany to still more resolutely face the problem of opening the
Western seaways. To think otherwise is to believe that Germany will
accept a quite impossible position tamely and without a struggle.

Hemmed in by Russia on the East and the new Southern Slav States on
the South-east, with a vengeful France being incited on her Western
frontier to fresh dreams of conquest, Germany sees England preparing
still mightier armaments to hold and close the seaways of the world.
The Canadian naval vote, the Malayan "gift" of a battleship come as
fresh rivets in the chain forged for the perpetual binding of the
seas, or it might more truly be said, for the perpetual binding of the
hands of die German people.

We read in a recent London periodical how these latest naval
developments portend the coming of the day when "the Imperial navy
shall keep the peace of the seas as a policeman does the peace of the
streets. The time is coming when a naval war (except by England), will
be as relentlessly suppressed as piracy on the high seas." (_Review of
Reviews_, December, 1912.)

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