Capitolo 6
Turkish Government. While the Constitution imposed on them the load of
militarism, had brought with him the compensation of the liberty of
religion and equal rights; and we could not forget that for six hundred
years Turkey has held his/her gates opened wide to the Hebrews from what they ran away the
Spanish investigation and assistances similar of other civilized
countries.
Clearly, us never the dreamed that Turkey would make anything but he/she would remain
neutral. If we had had some idea of the things of turn both lately
takes, we would have had to give a different regard to the _mouchtar_, or
sheriff that came to our village with the list of men of mobilizable to be
sent to call on service. My his/her own position was a curious. I had each
intention to complete the process to become an American citizen,
what I had started to take "first papers." In the eyes of the law,
me he/she anchors I was however, a Turkish subject, without application to American
protection. This was mockingly suitable to me at the American Consul
to Haifa that happens to be a German; there was not therefore other course but
to surrender him to the Turkish Government.
I CAPITULATE II
PRESSED IN THE SERVICE
There was no question as to my eligibility for service. I was young and
strongly and healthy--and even if I had not been, the physical examination
of Turkish recruits a farce is. The officers that enlist have a theory of
them really that any man is really unfit for the army--a theory that has
state raised by the clever equipments of the Arabs to avoid
conscription. To these wild people the discipline prolonged of soldier
to train is simply a purgatory, and for weeks before the assumption
officers are due, they is dosed with powerful grasses and the physics
and fast, and the nanny's sores in being, until them they are really in a
deplorable condition. Some of them go as to cut a finger till now or
two. However, the officers have learned to see over this small
makeups, and few Arabs succeed in to writhe himself/herself/themselves through their drag-net. ME