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Identifier: worldinperplexit00dani (find matches)
Title: A world in perplexity
Year: 1918 (1910s)
Authors: Daniells, Arthur Grosvenor, 1858- (from old catalog)
Subjects: Bible World War, 1914-1918
Publisher: Washington, D.C., New York city (etc.) Review and herald publishing assn
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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ish Empire The creation of a railway from Constantinopleto Bagdad under European control is at once a symp-tom of the dissolution of the Turkish Empire. The railway has been a nightmare resting heavilyon all Europe for eighteen years — ever since the an-nouncement in 1899 of the concession granted to theAnatolian Railway Company. No step ever taken byany European power anywhere has caused so muchtrouble, given rise to so many complications, and hasbeen such a constant menace to the peace of the world.No European statesman to whom the destinies of hiscountry have been committed has rested easily in thepresence of this specter of the twentieth century. Inthe last analysis the Bagdad Railway will be foundto be the largest single contributing factor in bring-ing on the war, because through it more than throughany other cause, the mutual distrust among Europeanpowers has been nurtured, until the entire atmosphereof international diplomacy became vitiated. The ex- 44 A World in Perplexity
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Keystone View Co Bread Baking in Syria planation for this remarkable phenomenon, transform-ing what appeared on the surface to be a magnificentcommercial enterprise, with untold possibilities for use-fulness, into a veritable curse, an excrescence on thebody politic of Europe, is to be sought in the historyof the highway through which the railway passes.The control of this highway is the key to the East the Near East and the Farther East as well. Such has been its role in the past — such is its significancetoday/—M., pp. U4, 115. Obstacles to Peace 45

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