[53] One delegate from a poor and friendless country had to take the maps of a rival state and retouch them in accordance with the ethnographical data, which he considered alone correct. [54] _L'Homme Enchatné_, December 14, 1914. [55] "With its causes and objects we have no concern." Speech delivered by Mr. Wilson before the League to Enforce Peace in Washington on May 24, 1916. [56] The testimony of a leading French press organ is worth reproducing here: "La situation du Président Wilson dans nos démocraties est magnifique, souveraine et extrêmement périlleuse. On ne connaît pas d'hommes, dans les temps contemporains, ayant eu plus d'autorité et de puissance; la popularité lui a donné ce que le droit divin ne conférait pas toujours aux monarques héréditaires. En revanche et par le fait du choc en retour, sa responsabilité est supérieure à celle du prince le plus absolu. S'il réussit à organiser le monde d'après ses rêves, sa gloire dominera les plus hautes gloires; mais il faut dire hardiment que s'il échouait il plongerait le monde dans un chaos dont le bolchevisme russe ne nous offre qu'une faible image; et sa responsabilité devant la conscience humaine dépasserait ce que peut supporter un simple mortel. Redoutable alternative!"--Cf. _Le Figaro_, February 10, 1919. [57] From Mr. Wilson's address to Congress read on December 2, 1918. Cf. _The Times_, December 4, 1918. [58] Cf. Secretary Lansing's evidence before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, _The Chicago Tribune_, August 27, 1919. [59] _La Démocratie Nouvelle_, May 27, 1919 [60] _Le Figaro_, March 26, 1919. [61] Both of them occurred before the armistice, but during the war. [62] For the accuracy of this and the preceding story I vouch absolutely. I have the names of persons, places, and authorities, which are superfluous here. [63] The Kurds are members of the great Indo-European family to which the Greeks, Italians, Celts, Teutons, Slavs, Hindus, Persians, and Afghans belong, whereas the Turks are a branch of a wholly different stock, the Ural-Altai group, of which the Mongols, Turks, Tartars, Finns, and Magyars are members. [64] April 16, 1919. [65] Madame N---- showed a friend of mine an autograph letter which she claims to have received from one of her clients, "a world's famous man." I was several times invited to inspect it at the clairvoyante's abode, or at my own, if I preferred. [66] Articles on the subject appeared in the French press. To the best of my recollection there was one in _Bonsoir_. [67] The American Red Cross buried sixteen hundred of them in August, 1919. _The Chicago Tribune_ (Paris edition), August 30, 1919. [68] The reply, of which I possess what was given to me as a copy, is dated Paris, January 9, 1919, and is in French.