Note 6 — Chapter XII · THE STRUGGLE FOR THE BAGDAD RAILWAY IS RESUMED
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Cf. supra, pp. 202–203. Professor Toynbee now speaks of this feature of the Entente in terms of contempt: “Its direct motive was covetousness, and it rested locally on nothing more substantial than the precarious honor among thieves who find their business threatened by a vigorous and talented competitor. Some of the thieves, at any rate, never got out of the habit of picking their temporary partners’ pockets.“ Op. cit., p. 46.