Volume I, pp. 633–635.

[30] _Parliamentary Debates, House of Commons_, fifth series, Volume 21 (1911), pp. 241–242.

[31] _Infra_, pp. 258–265.

[32] For the views of a typical British imperialist on the Persian situation, _cf._, Curzon, _Persia and the Persian Question_, Volume II, Chapter XXX; a later account is that of the American, W. Morgan Shuster, _The Strangling of Persia_ (New York, 1912); _cf._, also, H. F. B. Lynch, “Railways in the Middle East,” in _Proceedings of the Central Asian Society_ (London), March 1, 1911.

[33] See P. Rohrbach, _Die Bagdadbahn_, p. 18; Reventlow, _op. cit._, pp. 338–343. That Rohrbach’s frank avowal of the menace of the Bagdad Railway to India and Egypt was not without influence in Great Britain is evidenced by the fact that long quotations from _Die Bagdadbahn_ were read into the records of the House of Commons by the Earl of Ronaldshay, on March 23, 1911. _Parliamentary Debates_, fifth series,