2i6 Father Tyrell at Storrington [1908 



as his friend and the Constitutionalists as unfriendly to Germany. 

 At the outset of the Turkish revolution public opinion in England had 

 expressed itself strongly in favour of the Constitutionalists, and to the 

 extent that Grey and our Foreign Office had been carried off their legs 

 and obliged unwillingly to a display of sympathy which found its ex- 

 pression in the King's telegram to the Sultan congratulating him on the 

 event, and having appointed Kiamil Pasha his Grand Vizier. Kiamil 

 had long been considered a friend to England and England's Egyptian 

 policy. He had been the Khedive Tewfik's tutor at one time, and had 

 approved of the English intervention in Tewfik's favour at the time of 

 Arabi. For the moment, therefore, the new regime at Constantinople 

 was regarded as a triumph over Austrian and German influence. The 

 friendly feeling, however, did not last long, as England was already 

 bound in the chains of the Franco-Russian Entente, and Russia was at 

 least as opposed to the regeneration of Turkey as was Austria. The sit- 

 uation resulted in an attitude of vacillation and insincerity on the part 

 of our diplomacy, which led to a series of betrayals of the Turkish 

 Government by Grey, as will be seen later. What is a quite correct 

 appreciation of the situation here is that which is said of the agreement 

 come to between England, France, and Russia at Reval, which de- 

 veloped into a coalition between these Powers against the Central 

 Empires, and which was interpreted in Germany as a design of " hem- 

 ming in," which in fact it was, proved the cause of the Great European 

 War, six years later. 



' nth Oct. — Father Tyrrell has sent me a wild letter in which, 

 after speaking about Thompson's poetry, he says a propos of the doings 

 in Bosnia and Bulgaria, ' Will you join me in a friendly visit to the 

 Emperor Francis Joseph, taking in the Czar and the Kaiser on our 

 way home? I feel it is time to do something instead of fizzling like a 

 spent crab. The political rascalities of the last few days has upset 

 my liver.' 



"12th Oct. — I have finished Nevinson's book about India. It is 

 very well written and interests me greatly, his experiences having a 

 close resemblance to my own of twenty-five years ago. It is dis- 

 heartening that the Indian reformers should have made so little way 

 since then, for they are hardly any further advanced. Nevinson does 

 not go far enough for me, perhaps he dares not. 



" It being a lovely morning I drove over to Storrington and found 

 Father Tyrrell in the annex to Mulberry House, busy, he told me, 

 with a philosopho-theological work of some encyclopaedic kind for a 

 publisher. His study is a dark little ground-floor room, and we went 

 out into the sunshine of the garden to talk. I asked him about his 

 relations with Rome, and he told me he feared there was little chance 

 of their improving. He is almost hopeless about the Church ever now 



