Note 2 — Chapter VIII · GREAT BRITAIN BLOCKS THE WAY
Reading edition
Cf. article “Suez Canal” in Encyclopedia Britannica, Volume 26, p. 23. How similar were these objections to those subsequently advanced in opposition to the Bagdad Railway! Cf., e. g., a statement by Lord Curzon, Parliamentary Debates, House of Lords, fifth series, Volume 7 (1911), pp. 583 et seq.