I heard about her grievances over our seizure of her ironclads, of the mischief the coming of the _Goeben_ had wrought, of Enver and his precious Committee and the way they had got a cinch on the old Turk.

When he had spoken for a bit, he began to question me.
'You are an intelligent fellow, and you will ask how a Polish adventurer, meaning Enver, and a collection of Jews and gipsies should have got control of a proud race.

The ordinary man will tell you that it was German organization backed up with German money and German arms.
You will inquire again how, since Turkey is primarily a religious power, Islam has played so small a part in it all.

The Sheikh-ul-Islam is neglected, and though the Kaiser proclaims a Holy War and calls himself Hadji Mohammed Guilliamo, and says the Hohenzollerns are descended from the Prophet, that seems to have fallen pretty flat.

The ordinary man again will answer that Islam in Turkey is becoming a back number, and that Krupp guns are the new gods.