Word: sultanate
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Dates: during 1920-1920
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...dignified policy. We want Americans to feel that they have about them the protecting arm of the United States. We read quite often now of Americans carried away and held for ransom and sometimes we think of the experience of another president years ago. When a North African sultan carried off an American citizen and declared that he wanted ransom, the answer was "We want--alive or the sultan dead." And in a very short time we had--alive. There is nothing more likely to breed trouble than the policy which waits while things go on from worse to worse...
...most of us it came as a distinct shock to learn, a few days ago, that the Allied powers intended to allow the Sultan to remain in Constantinople, with a large part of his former power still untouched; and this news was not rendered the more acceptable when printed side by side with accounts of fresh massacres and outrages committed by the Sultan's subjects...
Great Britain and France, it is alleged, are compelled by the sentiment of their Mohammedan colonies to protect the Sultan. But a large part of the Mohammedan world regards the Sultan as a usurper, and renounces all allegiance, civil or religious, to the Ottoman Empire. Mohammedan troops from India and Algeria fought not only against those Germans, but also against those of their own faith. When Mecca passed out of the power of the Turk, not a murmur was heard; yet Mecca, far more than Constantinople, has always been regarded as the center of Islam...
Even if the contrary were true, it might furnish a motive for retaining the Sultan as a nominal religious head; but it would give not the faintest pretext for bolstering up his secular power. It is a great pity that the United States, by its rejection of the League, is in no position to take any active part in concert with the other powers, toward solving the problem of the Near East. But our people, in company with the nations of Europe, have not been slow to voice their protest against the decision of the allied governments. For over...