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Turks and Kurds. Naturally, this remnant of a people will not nearly
suffice to fill their entire province, but in order to satisfy the
claims of justice at all adequately, the whole district of Armenia, as
Armenia was known before its people were exterminated, must be amputated
by a clean cut out of the Ottoman Empire and placed, in an autonomous
condition in a new protected province, which will include all the
vilayets of Armenia.

There is no doubt about a prosperous future for Armenia if this is done,
and to do less than this would be to fail signally as regards the solemn
promise made by the Allies when they stated to President Wilson their
aims in the war. The Armenians have ever been a thrifty and industrious
people, possessed of an inherent vitality which has withstood centuries
of fiendish oppression. With facilities given them for their
re-settlement, and with foreign protection to establish them, they will,
beyond question, more than hold their own against the Kurds. As a
nation they are, as we have seen, partly agricultural in their pursuits;
but a considerable proportion of them (and these the more intelligent)
are men of business, merchants, doctors, educationalists, and gravitate
to towns. Constantinople, as we shall see, will be open to them again,
where lately they numbered nearly as many as the entire remnant of their
nation numbers now; so, too, will be the cities of Syria, of Palestine,
and of Mesopotamia in the New Turkey which we are attempting to sketch.
They will probably not care to settle in the towns and districts that
will remain in the hands of their late oppressors and murderers.

In the work of their repatriation none will be more eager to help than
the American missionaries, who, at the time of the last massacre, as so
often before, showed themselves so nobly disregardant of all personal
danger and risk in doing their utmost for their murdered flock, and who
have explicitly declared their intention of resuming their work. With
regard to the eviction of Kurds that will be necessary, it must be
remembered that the Kurd is a trespasser on the plains and towns of
Armenia, and properly belongs to the mountains from which he was
encouraged to descend by the Turks for purposes of massacre. Out of
those towns and plains he must go, either into the mountains of Armenia
from whence he came, or over the frontier of Armenia into the New Turkey
presently to be defined. He must, in fact, be depor