It was thought up to the last moment that Javid
Bey might be saved. He was never ruthless and unscrupulous in the same degree as his colleagues, and he was undoubtedly a man of ability in finance. At the trial he delivered a long speech in his own defence which the Times correspondent says was admitted by everyone to be magnificent. It may be placed in future in that surprising category of great orations delivered when the speakers were practically under sentence of death. With Dr. Nazim one had less sympathy. Ile was one of the most brutal of the Young Turks. Because the Armenians stood in the way of his Neo-Turanian ambitions he deliberately destroyed them. This monster has now gone the way of the more engaging Talaat and the more dashing Enver, and the Committee of Union and Progress is but a name to go down to history.
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