The Progress of the World. 



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danelles will be made a free waterway, 

 there will still remain a small Turkish 

 foothold in Europe. But Turkey's 

 future is not in Europe ; it is in Asia, 

 and the more completely she realises 

 this, and sets to work to reorganise 

 and perfect her administration in her 

 remaining pro- 

 vinces, the 

 sooner will she 

 become again 

 a force to be 

 reckoned with. 

 The constitu- 

 tion which has 

 been so largely 

 responsible for 

 her downfall 

 will be sus- 

 pended, and, 

 free from the 

 outward trap- 

 pings of Par- 

 liament and 

 nominal lib- 

 erty, the Turks 

 may accom- 

 plish real pros- 

 perity and 

 practical 1 i b - 

 erty. In many 

 ways Turkey 

 as an Asiatic 

 Power is much 

 more valuable 



to Great^Brita.in, since friendship — and 

 alliance even — with an Asiatic Turkey 

 is possible, and may be advisable, 

 whereas European Turkey always pre- 

 sented innumerable points of danger. 

 If this country were allied with the 

 Balkan League and with Turkey in 

 Asia Minor, aiding the Turks with 

 British officials and British advisers, our 



The Great Powers — Lookers-on. 



A group of the military attaches of the Great Powers imitating their 

 Governments and looking on at the war. 



situation in the Near East would be one 

 of extreme security and potential force. 

 We must deprecate strongly any idea 

 of elevating the Khedive of Egypt to 

 the Caliphate, both because we do 

 not believe he is the ideal person 

 to reorganise the central power of 



the world of 

 Islam and 

 because such a 

 course of action 

 must appear 

 as taking ad- 

 vantage of a 

 beaten nation. 

 The proverbial 

 good fortune 

 which attends 

 the uncon- 

 sidered and 

 unthought-out 

 policy of this 

 country in 

 foreign affairs 

 has again come 

 to our aid, and 

 has enabled us 

 to emerge from 

 the Turkish 

 debacle in aT^ 

 stronger posi- 

 tion vis-d-vis 

 the world of 

 Islam than 

 have 



a»- stt^ jx. "-^ 



we 



ever 



Some Real Facts 

 about the War. 



possessed before. 



The ending of the war 

 enables us to appreciate 

 more accurately the 

 parts played by the 

 various nations. The Turks, hope- 

 lessly disorganised, and with an army 

 weakened by politics and by a depar- 

 ture from the old Mohammedan ideas, 



