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The Review of Reviews. 



of an Anglo-German entente, and as it seems as if they 

 must hate someone, they are therefore reviving 

 Russophobia, apparently in the hope that by so doing 

 they may divert national prejudice from Germany to 

 Russia. It is a dangerous game, and one entirely 

 unworthy of the best traditions of the Daily News. 



Mr. Shuster arrived in London at 

 Mp. Shuster the end of the month on his way 

 Persia. home to America. He was enter- 



tained at a banquet at the Savoy 

 Hotel by his friends and admirers. Mr. Shuster 

 appears to be a very capable young man, and if he 

 had had a little more tact might have done great 

 things for Persia. Unfortunately he seems from the 

 first to have set himself to jeopardise the agreement 

 between Russia and England and to encourage the 

 Persians in a provocative line, which, things being as 

 as they are, everyone with half an eye must have seen 

 would play directly into the hands of those Russians 

 who from the first have regarded with little sympathy 

 the agreement between the two Governments, the 

 object of which was to maintain the independence 

 and integrity of Persia. The one hope for Persia is 

 that England and Russia will be on good terms with 

 each other, and that each will act as a mutual 

 check upon the other should they be tempted to 

 interfere in the internal affairs of Persia. Eloquent 

 and ambitious speeches were delivered in Mr. 

 Hammcrsteiii's Opera House and at the Savoy 



banquet by men \vho do not seem to have realised the 

 inevitable result of their impassioned rhetoric. Sup- 

 posing Mr. Ramsay Macdonald, Sir Thomas Barclay, 

 or Mr. Lynch were made Foreign Secretary, what 

 would he do? He would either have to carry on 

 with Russia as best he could, endeavouring to obtain 

 the maximum security for Persian independence or 

 integrity under very ditificult circumstances. If he 

 did this he would be doing exactly what Sir Edward 

 Grey is doing. Or he might take umbrage at some- 

 thing Russia has done and protest against it, which 

 apparently is the only idea these Opera House poli- 

 ticians have in their heads. But after you have 

 protested, what then ? 



Supposing that Russia ignores your 

 protest, are you going to quarrel 

 with Russia, which means war, the 

 first results of which would be 

 to place the whole of Northern Persia in the hands 

 of Russia, without any possibility of being able to 

 dislodge her by an attack from the Persian Gulf? 

 Our Persiamaniacs protest that they do not wish 

 to go to war, and as they are most of them paci- 

 fists by profession we may accept their assurances. 

 What, then, is the other alternative? Simply to 

 protest and sulk: to break up the harmonious relations 

 between England and Russia, and to set up along the 

 whole of the Asiatic frontier, from the Red to the 

 V'ellow Sea, the old policy of antagonism, intrigue and 



Fight or Sulk ? 



The Manchu Dynasty An Interesting Group. 



(I) Prince Tsni T.no ; (2) Prince All : (3) Princt .'^u ; (4) I'lincc Ts.ii l-u : (5) f kncr.nl Yin Tiliang ; 

 (7) Kxccllcncy N.i Tung ; (8) Kxccllency Ilsu ; Minister Foiciyn AlVairs Tsao : anil (10) I'l 



\ Tof<ical Prets. 



(6) Prince Tsai Ilsiicn ; 

 Ince Chin I,ai, 



