Note 39 — Chapter VI · THE BAGDAD RAILWAY BECOMES AN IMPERIAL ENTERPRISE
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Regarding the Emperor’s personal interest in the Bagdad Railway consider the following Reuter dispatch, published in The Near East, December 6, 1911, p. 143: “By desire of the German Emperor, Herr Gwinner, director of the Deutsche Bank, will give an address on the Bagdad Railway before the Emperor and a number of invited guests, in the Upper House of the Prussian Diet soon after the Emperor’s return to Berlin, December 8.”