ENGLAND AFTER MEDITERRANEAN
Das, Taraknath
England After Mediterranean Seed For Future War Lies In Policy To Gain Control Of This Avenue Of Commerce By TARAKNATH DAS THE worid war came to an end with an extension of the vast world empire...
...The present Turco-Greece war is a war created through British efforts and diplomacy and carried Bri-» tish support to Greece in spite of the opposition of France and Italy to the British policyl This point has been made clear through the following dispatch from the Rome correspondent of the Chicago Tribune of Sept 7th, 1922...
...Carrying the Message to Garcia By H. H. Dunn OUT in a high frame house, perched on the summit of Russian Hill, lighted at dawn by the sun's first rays pearling across the summits of the distant Sierra, and bathed in gold by the last rays of the setting sun laying a lane of liquid fire through the Golden Gate, lives a man who waited nearly 25 years for the thanks of the United States Government for a deed of heroism performed in war...
...Baltic has been made a British lake, British efforts are' now being directed towards making the Mediterranean a British lake, Britain's near-eastern policy must be studied from this point of view, then many of the intricacies of world politics can be easily understood and explained...
...It is quite logical that some stalwart statesman will arise either in France, Italy or Russia, who will free the Mediterranean from the British control...
...We will not compromise, we insist on self-determination, but the Greeks are supported by England, so we have been fighting for eleven years, and must continue...
...Britain has the Suez, Cyprus, Malta, Gibraltar and if she-can control the Dardenelles, then the Mediterranean will be...
...Will the world calmly countenance that Britain will make the Mediterranean a British lake...
...He is Lieutenant Colonel A, S. Rowan, U. S. A., retired...
...a British lake without dispute: Britain likes the idea so much that she objects to the idea of France having a port on the African coast near the Gibraltar...
...It is not necessary to emphasize that British foreign policy has been for complete annihilation of Turkey and control of the Middle East, from the Suez to the Persian gulf bordering India...
...We owe all this to the English, who want to establish their domination over the Dardenelles and close the Black Sea, and they are using the Greeks to obtain this end...
...Britain is supporting Greece against Turkey and other nations because Britain wishes to strengthen her position through Greece and by creating rivalries between Greece and Italy and other nations...
...Britain must have a navy much bigjrer than that of the combined navy of France and Italy...
...Seed of Another War THE control of the Dardenelles by the British will be a greater menace to France, Italy and Russia than the Turkish control of the strait...
...England After Mediterranean Seed For Future War Lies In Policy To Gain Control Of This Avenue Of Commerce By TARAKNATH DAS THE worid war came to an end with an extension of the vast world empire of Britain...
...The problem is clear and it is certain that in the British Near-Eastern policy there is the seed of a great world-war...
...he did not expect any thanks for the doing of his duty, and he received none...
...Russia has no port anywhere in the world, and British control of the Dardenelles coupled with the British policy of partitioning Russia with various states in the East, West, North and South, is a great menace to Russia's very existence...
...Eighteen million Turks are determined to die rather than live without liberty...
...To make the Mediterranean a British lake she is playing the diplomatic game in various ways dangerous to world peace...
...Britain is supporting Italy in her Mediterranean and Adriatic policies to keep France and Italy apart...
...Balfour in the Washington conference, the French demand for an adequate navy for the national defense of the latter...
...They all know that Turkey in control of the Dardenelles is not one-tenth as dangerous as Britain in control of the strait...
...Will Britain be able to play Italy and France one against the other, and also keep Russia apart from the European nations...
...Lieutenant Rowan set out on his errand through the deadly Spanish lines as a matter of duty...
...Britain is working to secure American support in her efforts to control the trade routes of the world...
...Britain opposed vigorously through Mr...
...Will this British policy of dominating Europe, Asia and Africa succeed...
...The British navy has secured the German dreadnaughts and there is no German or Russian navy to menace her in the Baltic or the North sea...
...Arif Bay, Angora's plenipotentiary minister to Italy, questioned on the Turkish attitude towards the Venice Conference on the near-east problems to be held in October, and intended specially to bring about the cession of the Greeco-Turkish hostilities said: "There will be no peace between Greece and Turkey...
...Balfour made it clear that Britain must have a two-power navy in the Mediterranean...
...One of the net results of the world war is that Britain has augmented her naval strength to a position that she is sole arbiter of Europe so far as navy is concerned...
...Britain must keep the route to India under British control...
...Britain is favoring Italy in certain matters in Africa, so that Italy will not side with France and make a common cause against Britain in the Mediterranean...
...He did that which he did because it was to be done...
...Make Sea British Lake THE ultimate goal of the British policy is to make the Mediterranean a British lake, by securing direct or indirect control over the Dardenelles and Constantinople...
...It is the problems of national self-defense and freedom of the seas and communication that have forced the governments of Italy, France and Russia to regard the British policy with great anxiety...
...But the greed for Empire and world dominion of Britain has not come to an end...
...He was Lieutenant A. S. Rowan, U. S. A., attached to the Bureau of Information at Washington, when, in August, 1898, he carried a message—since become world-famous— to a sandal-shod, machete-armed Indian named Garcia, hidden in the jungles of the Pearl of the Antilles...
...when he returned he had united the insurrectos of Cuba with the army and navy of the United States for the final blow at the power of Spain in the New World...
...This is really at the back of the moral support of Italy, France and Russia extending to the Angora Government headed by Mustafa Kamel Pasha...
...For the sake of national interest and world peace, France, Italy and Russia must unite and mak a common cause against British spirit of world domination, and making the Mediterranean a British lake...
...He did not expect any thanks at this late date, but his friends thought that this republic should give to him some mark of recognition— even though after a delay of 24 years—and they moved swivel-chair Washington to award Colonel A. S. Rowan, retired, a special Congressional medal, since no medals were regularly authorised at that time...
...His name and the tale of his deed have been placed in the hands of more than 40,000,000 young Americans...
Vol. 14 • October 1922 • No. 10
