Capitolo 14
You/he/she can be of opportune interest to say here some words concerning this
it publicizes as I have seen him in Palestine, while scattering strong under and
efficient organization for twenty years.
To become himself/herself/themselves account of his/her dreams imperialistic Germany completely it had need
Palestine. It was the key to the Oriental and whole situation. No lake
coincidence brought the Kaiser to Damascus in November, 1898,--the same
month that Kitchener, to London as Gordon has been greeted it is avenger,--when
he sent forth his/her famous sentence to the grave of Saladin: "Says the three
one hundred million Moslems of the world that I am their friend!" We have
all the photos seen of the imperial figure, drape in him a to surprise
burnous of his really to draw (above of what the Prussian _Pickelhaube_
increases supreme), as him stirred from point to point in this deadly
visit: we have been able to also see the famous cartoon of Caran of Ache (a
subject of diplomatic correspondence) representing this same imperial
you show up, in his/her Oriental toggery, riding in Jerusalem on a donkey.
The nations of Europe laughed to this visit and its transparent purpose,
but it was every part of the scheme that won for the Germans the
concessions for the Platform in Konia-Baghdad, and it manufactured them owners of the
double valley of the Euphrates and Tigris. Through lines of branch
projected through the firman, they is practically in control of both
the Syrian runs of routing toward the Mediterranean of Cypriotic and Lebanon
valleys. They also checks the Armenian three runs of routing of Cappadocia the,
Black sea and the trans-Caucasian branch of Urfa, Marach and Mardine.
(The fall of Erzerum has altered conditions that respect this last.) Them
dominoes as good the Persian runs of routing toward Tauris and Teheran; and I complete,
but not least, the branch of Gulf of Zobeir. These platforms delivered in
German hands the control of Persia, from where the road to India you/he/she can be done
effortless: through lies of Syria the run of routing in the Channel of Suez and Egypt that