If the Armenians are to be left as they are, it is a pity that
Europe ever mentioned them in the treaty of Berlin or subsequently;
and to intrust reforms in behalf of the Armenians to those who
have devoted two months' time to killing and robbing them is
simply to abandon the Armenians to destruction, and to put the
seal of Europe to the bloody work. The only way to reform Eastern
Turkey is by forcible foreign intervention--not the threat of it,
but the intervention itself.
The position and power of Russia give her a unique call to this
work. Should she enter on it at once, the whole civilized world
would approve her course.
Russia should have as free a hand in Kurdistan as England has
insisted on having in Egypt. By frankly admitting this, England
would gain in the respect and sympathy of the world, and strengthen
her own position.