The second letter referred to gives Mr. Harlow’s opinion of the Lausanne Treaty and is addressed to the Reverend Doctor Barton, Foreign Secretary of the American Board of Foreign Missions. As some of the missionaries who are desirous of saving the remnants of their installations in Turkey have come out in favor of the treaty, Mr. Harlow’s opinion on the subject, and his reasons, may be of interest: “At the time of the conference, and following it, I was asked to discuss the situation in numerous addresses, so that I read up carefully everything I could get, which would throw light on the subject. All the evidence goes to show that the men who went to Lausanne were influenced from the very first in all their decisions to protect the oil interests, which featured largely behind the scenes in the Conference discussions. That those interests were so strong as to overshadow the humanitarian and missionary interests I have accepted without question, until I read your paragraph. “I turn now to some of my sources of information, for which you ask. Unfortunately, most of my material on this subject is in my files at Northampton, but I have with me references which will perhaps indicate why I have associated oil with blood in connection with Lausanne. I would refer you to the following articles and I might name numerous others: “‘American Blood and Oil,’ _Literary Digest_, December 30, 1922; ‘Oil and Glory at Lausanne,’ _Literary Digest_, July 28, 1923; ‘Blind Forces at Lausanne,’ _Asia_, April, 1923; ‘Britain’s Mesopotamian Burden and Oil,’ _Literary Digest_, December 15, 1922; ‘Issues at Lausanne,’ _Living Age_, January 6, 1923; ‘Lausanne and its Antecedents,’ _Fortnightly Review_, January, 1923; ‘Uncle Sam Mixing in the Turkish Broil,’ _Literary Digest_, December 23, 1922; ‘The Tragedy of Lausanne,’ _Association Men_, March or April, 1923; ‘The World Race for Oil,’ _Literary Digest_, January 20, 1923. “If you will take the time and trouble, as I have, to read even these few articles, and the _Literary Digest_ quotes from many other sources, you will find that the main theme is that the humanitarian interests at Lausanne were sold out, because of oil interests, and that the missionary interests got nowhere. “A regular official of the Standard Oil came to Lausanne before the Conference opened. Lewis Heck, who was in the business in Constantinople came to Lausanne as a member of the American delegation.[13]