A. F. (Albert Pollard) Pollard

Capitolo 50

you address free in return for a hand with the subject nationalities of the
I reign Ottoman. Russia was the obstacle common to the both the ambitions;  but,
Russia finally crippled, States Balkan they would become Turkish-Teutonic
provinces and the East Neighbor a German avenue in Asia, while Egypt
you/he/she would be recovered for the Sultan and you/he/she would be constituted a base German
penetration of Africa.

Millions of German money had already been run over in this scheme, and
the versatile pity of the Kaiser had supposed a Moslem color in the east.
He was proclaimed the friend of every Moslem under the
you sun, and you/he/she was attentively braked by to hurt the feelings of the
authors of the Armenian massacres. The defeat of his/her Turkish friends
in the Balkan Wars you/he/she had almost been as great a hit to him as to them,
and he had seen in the subsequent discord of the winners an opportunity of
crushing them everybody. Rumania, he thought, his/her wagon-wheels you/he/she was laced to
from his/her king of Hohenzollern and Greece from his/her queen of Hohenzollern;  and
Bulgaria could be defeated through his/her hate of the succeeded Serbs.
Serbia conquered, the corridor would be complete;  but Serbia was not able
is permanently crushed while Russia was intact, and Turkey is able
both an useful ally in the Russian country. There were millions of
Moslems under Russian rule and a Turkish invasion of the
Caucasus, even if it didn't stimulate insurrection in Russia,
holds in hundreds of thousand of Russian troops from Prussia Est,
Poland or Galicia.

Separately from the vulgar gifts that struck the Young statesmen of Turkish
there were the other motives to transport the populace. A Jehad against the
It is probable that Cristiano mixes the honest fanatic;  Turkish rich you/they had invested
some of their savings in two Turkish Dreadnoughtses under construction
in England that had enlisted with the strength the British Government;  and two
German war ships, the Goeben and the Breslau had reached the Gilded ones