Volume 226 (1911), p. 5980c. _Cf._, also, W. H. Dawson, _The Evolution

of Modern Germany_, pp. 346 _et seq._

[38] Von Reventlow, _op. cit._, p. 340; _Stenographische Berichte, XII Legislaturperiode, 2 Session_, Volume 226 (1911), p. 5994b.

[39] Regarding the Emperor’s personal interest in the Bagdad Railway consider the following Reuter dispatch, published in _The Near East_, December 6, 1911, p. 143: “By desire of the German Emperor, Herr Gwinner, director of the _Deutsche Bank_, will give an address on the Bagdad Railway before the Emperor and a number of invited guests, in the Upper House of the Prussian Diet soon after the Emperor’s return to Berlin, December 8.”

[40] E. J. Dillon, quoted by Lothrop Stoddard, _The New World of Islam_, p. 98.

[41] Jastrow, _op. cit._, p. 9.