The Turkish Indemnity Question
DISCUSSING the proposition that the United States should force Turkey to pay the eighty-eight thousand dollars’ indemnity claimed and admitted, a Washington correspondent says that “the appearance of an American fleet in Turkish waters might well start into existence international complications of the most delicate and hazardous sort.” And this because there is “in many European countries a suspicion that the United States is making too rapid progress as a world-power; that we have set out on a career of imperialism; and that no continent is safe from our ambition.” He remarks that therefore the “effort to squeeze money out of the Turk is not as simple as it appears on the surface.”