Turkey: A Past and a FutureGeorge H. Doran, 1917 - 85 էջ |
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Էջ 59 - The object of Zionism is to establish for the Jewish people a publicly and legally assured home in Palestine".
Էջ 62 - I4J million Jews have been able to do Germany vital injury or service, and, while the Jews have no national State, their dispersion over the whole world, their high standard of culture, and their peculiar abilities lend them a weight that is worth more in the balance than many larger national masses...
Էջ 56 - Palestine ; but it is between 8 per cent. and 14 per cent. of the area under cultivation, and there are vast uncultivated tracts which the Jews can and will reclaim, as their numbers grow — both by further colonisation and by natural increase, for the first generation of colonists have already proved their ability to multiply in the Promised Land. Under this new Jewish husbandry Palestine has begun to recover its ancient prosperity.
Էջ 62 - What is the outlook for Palestine after the war ? If the Ottoman pretension survives, the menace from Turkish Nationalism* and German resentmentf is grave. But if Turk and German go, there are Zionists who would like to see Palestine a British Protectorate, with the prospect of growing into a British Dominion.
Էջ 24 - Our participation in the World War represents the vindication of our national ideal. The ideal of our nation and our people leads us towards the destruction of our Muscovite enemy, in order to obtain thereby a natural frontier to our Empire, which should include and unite all branches of our...
Էջ 29 - by the brave German, Austrian, and Turkish armies, thirty to forty million Turks will receive their independence. With the ten million Ottoman Turks this will form a nation of...
Էջ 57 - In a certain sense the Jews are a Near Eastern element in Germany and a German element in Turkey.
Էջ 49 - ... and fragments of clothes, skulls and bones which had been partly stripped of the flesh by jackals and birds of prey. The author of the present report considers it out of the question that, if the German Government is seriously determined to stem the tide of destruction even at this eleventh hour, it would find it impossible to bring the Turkish Government to reason. If the Turks are really so well inclined to us Germans as people say, cannot they have it pointed out to them how seriously they...
Էջ 74 - I was the scion of a race in whose hands God has placed, for hundreds of years, the destinies of this great country, and that my countrymen could give no better account of their stewardship than the exhibition of two mighty rivers flowing between deserts to waste themselves in the sea for nine months of the year, and desolating everything in their way for the remaining three? No effort that Turkey can make can be too great to roll away the reproach of those parched and weary lands, whose cry ascends...
Էջ 50 - Churches is, first, to revive the knowledge and spirit of the Gospel among them, and, secondly, by this means to operate upon the Mohammedans. . . . The Oriental Churches need assistance from their brethren abroad. Our object is not to subvert them ; you are not sent among those Churches to proselytise. Let the Armenian remain an Armenian if he will, the Greek a Greek, the Nestorian a Nestorian, the Oriental an Oriental.