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The maker of phrases plies a dangerous trade. Very often his phrase is applicable for the moment and for the situation in view of which he coined it, but his coin has only a temporary validity: it is good for a month or for a year, or for whatever period during which the crisis lasts, and after that it lapses again into a mere token, a thing without value and without meaning. But the phrase cannot, as in the case of a monetary coinage, at once be recalled, for it has gone broadcast over the land, or, at any rate, it is not recalled,. | CRESCENT AND IRON CROSS 1 CRESCENT AND IRON CROSS BY E.F. BENSON Crescent and Iron Cross Preface In compiling the following pages I have had access to certain sources of official information the nature of which I am not at liberty to specify further. I have used these freely in such chapters of this book as deal with recent and contemporary events in Turkey or in Germany in connection with Turkey the chapter for instance entitled Deutschland uber Allah is based very largely on such documents. I have tried to be discriminating in their use and have not as far as I am aware stated anything derived from them as a fact for which I had not found corroborative evidence. With regard to the Armenian massacres I have drawn largely on the testimony collected by Lord Bryce on that brought forward by Mr. Arnold J. Toynbee in his pamphlet The Murder of a Nation and The Murderous Tyranny of the Turks and on the pamphlet by Dr. Martin Niepage called The Horrors of Aleppo. In the first chapter I have based the short historical survey on the contribution of Mr. D.G. Hogarth to The Balkans Clarendon Press 1915 . The chapter called Thy Kingdom is Divided is in no respect at all an official utterance and merely represents the individual opinions and surmises of the author. It has however the official basis that the Allies have pledged themselves to remove the power of the Turk from Constantinople and to remove out of the power of the Turk the alien peoples who have too long already been subject to his murderous rule. I have in fact but attempted to conjecture in what kind of manner that promise BY E.F. BENSON 2 will be fulfilled. Fresh items of news respecting internal conditions in Turkey are continually coming in and if one waited for them all one would have to wait to the end of the war before beginning to write at all on this subject. But since such usefulness as this book may possibly have is involved with the necessity of its appearance before the end of the war I set a term to
