I was astonished to learn that some people at Constantinople had authority for the use of the name of J.P.Morgan & Co.

Indeed, a railroad concession in Asia Minor, the details of which it is not now necessary to go into, had been arranged, I was told, and lacked only signatures.

The American people felt that the Germans were the little devils under the table who stayed the hand of the Sultan, and kept his pen off the parchment.

Never would the signature come down on that paper, although declared to have been many times promised.
The English were, of course, vitally interested in any railroad concessions in Asia Minor as opening the route to the Persian Gulf and India.

Money talks with Turkey as nowhere else.