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Show r 1 i 1 c-j C-3 u-j mncn rj3 r. i c n cj rji j r j cj aZJ cjj cj e-j cj m cj i "It Was Your Prime Minister George Who Saved Turkey From Herself" By DR. A. J. TOYNBEE, in Contemporary Revievy. ITad we succeeded in establishing a moral hold over the mst independent inde-pendent Moslem state, our ascendency would hardly have beo.i disputed elsewhere; and the whole Islamic world, from IVnjral to Constantinople, and from the African lakes to the Caucatfim, nu''lit have leva drawn into the wnka of the Bn'tjsh Empire, except for a few French ani Italian (leH iiilencies scattered here mid there as enclave. Ixoking back trti this position today, th Tu;k, ! frvj'tians. Afglians, and Indians whom an Knjrliph visitor meets at Angola have a av of smiling and professing ironical gratitude to Mr. Nov,! (Icorge. "It was your late prim? minister," they explain, "who saved Turkey fn.m herself. Had he given her one touch of kindness, one friendly troke or n g"i:t'e word, she ti-..iM have licked hand and mc nrght .1!! 1 :iv' -t our independ.'iire f..rt-er. Ffrt'm.-it.-l v. ;e pn ferte-1 to .tick l,.er tiil she shewed her fftli and sMMine, Uj her ;i(-t en r-rit-r. to fighf -t h'T cvMeme; and, as it tiine-d 11U. U) i.n gnn.'d f.ir mere bi '.ilaiHV than ve could ver have .4.1;:,. d by loie-iliatiou." |
