. Across Asia Minor on foot . lay astrain of sentiment reaching farther than many sup-posed—a thin strain, perhaps, but a potent one. Afriendly German remarked to me once that manyreasons existed why his country should find especialinterest in Asia Minor. * It is really not so very far from the home ofthe Germanic peoples, he explained, taking a widegeographical view. It is the Asiatic hinterland ofunited Germany, and is quite accessible. Perhapsyou know that in the days of the Crusades FredericBarbarossa, who is one of our national heroes, reachedAsia Minor overland from middle Europe with aG
. Across Asia Minor on foot . lay astrain of sentiment reaching farther than many sup-posed—a thin strain, perhaps, but a potent one. Afriendly German remarked to me once that manyreasons existed why his country should find especialinterest in Asia Minor. * It is really not so very far from the home ofthe Germanic peoples, he explained, taking a widegeographical view. It is the Asiatic hinterland ofunited Germany, and is quite accessible. Perhapsyou know that in the days of the Crusades FredericBarbarossa, who is one of our national heroes, reachedAsia Minor overland from middle Europe with aGerman army. It exceeded 100,000 men, and withit he fought many victorious battles after crossingthe Dardanelles. At Konia he won a great Konia he continued his advance, but wasdrowned among the Taurus mountains, within sightof the sea. That German army of the twelfth cen-tury marched from middle Europe to Palestine,and wrote a chapter of our history in which wetake great pride. Asia Minor has been an eastern i. t o
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