712 T. C. CHAMBERLIN 
Indian trails, we propose in analogy to superpose on the dynasty- 
ridden domains of Central Europe and Asia Minor. Some of the 
leading details will be discussed later. 
The highway problem of Asia Minor.—The Asiatic area of con- 
flict presents some special difficulties and may therefore be treated 
on a special basis. The Black Sea on the north, the Bosphorus, 
the Sea of Marmora, the Dardanelles, and the Aegean Sea on the 
west, and the Mediterranean on the south, mark off Anatolia in a 
definite natural way as the appropriate home of the Ottoman 
peoples. Nowhere else are these peoples the preponderant nation- 
ality. Even here their dominance is qualified by the presence of 
numerous Greeks, Armenians, and the modified descendants of 
many ancient peoples. To complete the delimitation of Anatolia 
according to the method of this scheme, it merely remains to open 
an omninational highway from the northeastern apex of the Medi- 
terranean over the plateau to the Black Sea, separating Armenia 
from Anatolia in response to the call of outraged justice. Neither 
sharp racial limits nor convenient topography lends itself very 
happily to this demarcation. No doubt lack of a marked natural 
boundary has contributed largely to the racial intermixture that 
prevails, but without question the massacres of five centuries are 
the chief reason why the Armenians are not more preponderant than 
they now are in their home region on the culminating plateau that 
has its apex at Mount Ararat. 
There is sore need for an open highway across the heart of 
Anatolia, not only for the sake of its own people, but for that of 
the lands beyond, which have suffered grievously in the past from 
isolation and oppression. It is proposed therefore that the Omni- 
national Confederation shall take over and administer the Con- 
stantinople-Bagdad railway and develop its connectons so as to 
make these serve as a gridiron of thoroughfares to and from the 
rich fluvial plains, as well as the oases of the arid tracts of the 
Near Orient. Under proper supervision, six productive, prosperous 
peoples should arise where poverty, degeneracy, and suffering have 
prevailed for five centuries. All these six lands—Anatolia, Arme- 
nia, Mesopotamia, Syria, Palestine, and Arabia—are sufficiently 
distinct in physical features, races, languages, traditions, social and 
religious institutions, to entitle them to be treated as independent 
