Ali Bayrak

“ The Europeans would have been none the worse for allowing these holy cities to be under the direct government of the Khalif, nor would they have menaced the security and advantages of those provinces which the Europeans have seized for themselves out of the Ottoman Empire. The Moslem conception of the Khalif, the writer points out, is different from that of the Christian conception of the Pope, for the Khalif is not regarded as spiritual priest alone, but also as earthly king and as long as the Europeans do not appreciate this distinction there can be no peace between Moslem and Christian. ”

“ India and Central Asia are aroused; Egypt rejects the proposals of the Milner Commission; Mesopotamia is in revolt; Kurdistan will accept no government other than that of the Sultan; Asia Minor is all against European Imperialism. ”

“ It would be well if Europe's chancelleries would give as much con sideration to these pleas as they do to the reports of their young men, who are by no means infallible, and to the decisions of their old men, who look at today's problems through the spectacles of six years ago. ”