Turkey And Greece.

New York Times 100 years ago today, December 14, 1912:
    It is quite natural that the Turkish Government should instruct its delegates at London to decline to meet the Greek delegates until Greece has signed the armistice. Greece can hardly expect to have a better position in the bargaining than her allies by keeping up the fight. Her Government wishes undoubtedly to capture Janina before binding itself as to the terms of peace, but if Bulgaria is content to suspend her efforts to capture Adrianople Greece will probably be forced to yield as to Janina.
    In reality these are minor matters. The business has passed almost wholly out of the bands of Turkey and her immediate foes. The terms that finally will be fixed will depend largely on the disposition of the six great Powers, and this will turn on questions larger than the mere redistribution of territory and jurisdiction in the peninsula. As yet these questions have not formally been defined. One thing only is fairly certain — that they will not be allowed to bring about a European war. Whatever sacrifices the allies will he required to make to prevent that catastrophe will be enforced. Doubtless these sacrifices will seem, especially in the case of Servia, excessive, but they are likely to prove unavoidable.
    Turkey, at least, will not retain the power for mischief that was hers before the war, and that of itself will be a gain to civilization and to humanity. On the other hand, it is quite likely that the Powers will secure better order, the condition of progress and prosperity, among the warring races represented by the allies. The process of adjustment will be tedious, but we may be hopeful as to its outcome.