. Review of reviews and world's work. erica for the TurkishGovernment, but the money was not , in May, our State Department for-warded a peremptory note to the Porte, demand-ing the immediate payment of the debt, andthere has been much discussion of the course thiscountry will pursue if it is impossible to make acollection without a show of coercion—sugges-tions ranging from the seizure of the custom-house at Smyrna to a naval demonstration be-fore Constantinople. Needless to say, it is in thehighest degree unlikely that the United Stateswiil be forced to such steps. The tru
. Review of reviews and world's work. erica for the TurkishGovernment, but the money was not , in May, our State Department for-warded a peremptory note to the Porte, demand-ing the immediate payment of the debt, andthere has been much discussion of the course thiscountry will pursue if it is impossible to make acollection without a show of coercion—sugges-tions ranging from the seizure of the custom-house at Smyrna to a naval demonstration be-fore Constantinople. Needless to say, it is in thehighest degree unlikely that the United Stateswiil be forced to such steps. The truth of thematter is, probably, that the Turkish minister hasgiven assurances at Washington of the final pay-ment of the claims, and has begged and receiveda short delay. It is interestmg to remember thata possible rupture over this intrinsically smalldifference may have effects in the far-away islandof Sulu, whose Mohammedan population vener-ates Abdul Hamid as the head of its religion. 658 THE AMERICAN MONTHLY REI/IEIV OF RE^
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