Turkey, the Great Powers, and the Bagdad Railway: A study in imperialism

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[28] For copies of this and other agreements the author is indebted to Dr. von Gwinner, of the _Deutsche Bank_.

[29] For the text of the agreement _cf._ E.M. Earle, “The Secret Anglo-German Convention of 1914 regarding Asiatic Turkey,” in the _Political Science Quarterly_ (New York), Volume XXXVIII (1923), pp. 41–44.

[30] “Correspondence between His Majesty’s Government and the United States Ambassador respecting Economic Rights in Mandated Territories,” _Parliamentary Papers_, No. Cmd. 675 (1921); _The Daily News_ (London), June 26, 1920; G. Slocombe, “The Oil Behind the War Scare,” in _The Daily Herald_ (London), October 12 and 13, 1922; _The Disclosures from Germany_, p. 238.

[31] _Parliamentary Debates, House of Commons_, Volume 64 (1914), pp. 116–117.

[32] For the complete text of the convention, _cf._ E. M. Earle, “The Secret Anglo-German Convention of 1914 regarding Asiatic Turkey,” _loc. cit._, pp. 24–44.

[33] Fullerton, _op. cit._, p. 307.

[34] Prince Lichnowsky, quoted from _The Disclosures from Germany_, pp. 71–72.

[35] Saint-Yves, _loc. cit._, pp. 526–531; _Anatolia_, pp. 49 _et seq._ Regarding the earlier development of Italian economic interests in Turkey _cf._ _supra_, pp. 105–107.

[36] For an interesting discussion of this point see Ahmed Djemal Pasha, _Erinnerungen eines türkischen Staatsmannes_ (Munich, 1922), translated into English under the title, _Memories of a Turkish Statesman, 1913–1919_ (New York, 1923), pp. 107–115 of the translation, pp. 113–122 of the German text. (Hereafter page references are given for the translation only).

[37] Baron Beyens, Belgian minister in Berlin, to M. Davignon, Belgian Minister of Foreign Affairs, No. 111 of the Belgian documents, translated in Morel’s _Diplomacy Revealed_, p. 283. The quotation from von Jagow is from _The Disclosures from Germany_, p. 251.

[38] Regarding the German military mission to Turkey _cf._ Djemal Pasha, _op. cit._, pp. 65–70, 101–102; Liman von Sanders, _Fünf Jahre Türkei_ (Berlin, 1919); Field Marshal von der Goltz, _Die Militärische Lage der Türkei nach dem Balkankriege_ (Berlin, 1913); _The Disclosures from Germany_, pp. 57 _et seq._

[39] Djemal Pasha, _op. cit._, p. 108.

[40] _Ibid._, pp. 107–115. Regarding other aspects of German military and diplomatic successes in Turkey during 1914, _cf._ _Anatolia_, pp. 44–45; Henry Morgenthau, _Ambassador Morgenthau’s Story_ (New York, 1918); Karl Helfferich, _Die deutsche Türkenpolitik_, pp. 28 _et seq._, and _Die Vorgeschichte des Weltkrieges_, _passim_; André Chéradame, _The Pan German Plot Unmasked_ (New York, 1917)—all representing widely divergent points of view.