Turkey a World Problem of to Day
Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: Ill TERRITORY AND POPULATION ALL countries look alike on the map. As r- Americans always see the United States on a relatively large-scale map and Asiatic countries on maps of a much smaller scale, their impressions of Turkey and other lands in Asia are wrong. They do not see them as they are. The adjoining map, which shows Turkey spread over a part of the United States, will give a better conception of the size of Asiatic Turkey. Turkey as it stands, with its share in Arabia omitted, is 696,894 square miles, a little less than one quarter of the "Continental United States," the United States exclusive of Alaska and insular possessions. With its possessions in Arabia, Turkey was one quarter of the size of the United States between the oceans. The area Turkey had in Arabia, Hejaz, holding the holy cities of
...Islam, Mecca, and Medina, 114,330 square miles, made it a full quarter of the United States; but this is gone, not to return in our day. The Kingdom of the Hejaz, practically guaranteed by Great Britain, is to-day, forall practical purposes and international relations, part of the British Empire, as indeed is all Arabia, about 1,000,000 square miles, with large certainties of oil wells in a region holding the largest unexplored area on the globe, except the South Polar lands. As Lord Robert Cecil neatly said in the House of Commons when asked if the British Government was responsible for the creation of the Kingdom of Hejaz, "No, but I cannot say we were surprised at the result," while the members shook with laughter over the neatness with which the span between the Red Sea and the Persian Gulf had been bridged. The Ottoman Empire that is left constitutes a homogeneous unit. The European and the Arabian possessions that it has lost have sometimes been held by what is no...
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