An Error Of The Powers.

New York Times 100 years ago today, July 22, 1913:
    The retaking of Adrianople by the Turks is a sad commentary on the mismanagement of the Balkan situation by the Powers. Obviously the Sultan's troops must be driven out again, as their presence in that part of the peninsula is in direct violation of the terms of the treaty of London. There can be no hope of permanent peace while the Turk occupies any part of the territory already conceded to the allies. Adrianople would be subject to continual attacks from Bulgaria, Servia, and Greece.
    The quarrels between the allies themselves will be settled by any by, if, indeed, they are not already settled, but the Turkish attempt to secure a new and greatly extended northern frontier cannot consistently be countenanced. That would be to abandon most of the benefits secured by the recent Balkan war, and though the misbehavior of the allies since their joint victory has been discouraging, and a new Balkan question may bother the Powers for years to come, the hands of the clock cannot be set back so far now as to permit the Turk to regain his lost possessions. Peace will come, sooner or later, without the Turk; with the re-establishment of the old Moslem rule and its persecutions peace would be impossible.