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Turkey, the Great Powers, and the Bagdad Railway

Note 4 — Chapter V · PEACEFUL PENETRATION PROGRESSES

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Cf. Parliamentary Debates, House of Commons, fourth series, Volume 120 (1903), p. 1371. During the Great War a conspicuous German general complained that the Swiss in charge of the operation of the Railway was more interested in the commercial than in the strategic value of the line and did not coöperate with the military authorities. Cf. Field Marshal Liman von Sanders, Fünf Jahre Türkei (Berlin, 1919), p. 40.

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