Note 9 — Chapter VIII · GREAT BRITAIN BLOCKS THE WAY

For the facts in this and the succeeding paragraph the author is indebted to Dr. Arthur von Gwinner, managing director of the Deutsche Bank; and to Sir Henry Babington Smith, erstwhile chairman of the Ottoman Public Debt Administration, a partner of Sir Ernest Cassel, president of the National Bank of Turkey, and a director of the Bank of England. Dr. von Gwinner placed at the disposal of the author many of the records of the Deutsche Bank and of the Bagdad Railway Company, and Sir Henry Babington Smith graciously volunteered to answer many puzzling questions.