This is Mesopotamia and the Bagdad railroad." Now who in Washington knows anything about Mesopotamia or the Bagdad railroad?
Yet here is the key of the most far-reaching problem in any peace proposals.

It is because this matter can now be settled that the plunging of Turkey into the war by Enver Bey has made all Europe rejoice.

The Germans think Turkey is another 16 1/2-inch howitzer or "Jack Johnson" putting black smoke over the British empire.

The rest of Europe now knows the whole of Turkey is on the table, and the carving, it is believed, will be had with no plates extended from either Austria or Germany.

For the first time the Turkish problem can be really settled instead of patched.
Some years ago I was astonished to learn in Europe that American banking interests, and American contracting and engineering firms in alliance therewith, had their eyes upon Asia Minor and the possibility of its development by American railroad enterprise.