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Certain Samaritans by Esther Pohl Lovejoy
Then came the World War and Turkey joined the Central Empires. While the great Christian nations were engaged in the barbarous business of killing each other on a colossal scale,
they could hardly protest against the Turks participating in the general carnage within their own borders. In accordance with the policy of Turkification, a monstrous scheme for the
extermination of Armenians was put into practice during the early years of the war. Turkey doubtless anticipated a rich reward and large territory to Turkify if the Central Powers won;
but they lost, and the surviving Christian minorities thought the day of deliverance from Turkish rule was at hand. It was---but not in the way they had hoped and anticipated.
The Allies failed of their promises.
The holocaust at Smyrna was the spectacular finale of the general Christian clean-up in Turkey. "Giaour Ismir," the Infidel City, went up inflames, and the Christian people fled
for their lives from every part of the country. With this fact accomplished, the Turks sat down with the Allies at Lausanne, a few months later, to negotiate terms of peace,
and probably did as well for themselves as they would have done if they had been negotiating with the triumphant Central Powers.
Esther Pohl Lovejoy. Certain Samaritans. 1933. Chapters 1-3.
Certain Samaritans by Esther Pohl Lovejoy
Then came the World War and Turkey joined the Central Empires. While the great Christian nations were engaged in the barbarous business of killing each other on a colossal scale,
they could hardly protest against the Turks participating in the general carnage within their own borders. In accordance with the policy of Turkification, a monstrous scheme for the
extermination of Armenians was put into practice during the early years of the war. Turkey doubtless anticipated a rich reward and large territory to Turkify if the Central Powers won;
but they lost, and the surviving Christian minorities thought the day of deliverance from Turkish rule was at hand. It was---but not in the way they had hoped and anticipated.
The Allies failed of their promises.
The holocaust at Smyrna was the spectacular finale of the general Christian clean-up in Turkey. "Giaour Ismir," the Infidel City, went up inflames, and the Christian people fled
for their lives from every part of the country. With this fact accomplished, the Turks sat down with the Allies at Lausanne, a few months later, to negotiate terms of peace,
and probably did as well for themselves as they would have done if they had been negotiating with the triumphant Central Powers.
Esther Pohl Lovejoy. Certain Samaritans. 1933. Chapters 1-3.
