"We have put our money on the wrong horse."[1]
THE MARQUIS OF SALISBURY.
" ... a Government incurably barbarous and corrupt."
THE DUKE OF ARGYLL.
" ... the Ottoman Empire ... decidedly foreign to Western civilization."
ALLIES' NOTE TO PRESIDENT WILSON,
January 11, 1917.
FOOTNOTE:
[1] After the massacres of 1895-1896, Lord Salisbury, who had himself taken a prominent part in the consummation of the Treaty of Berlin and the Cyprus Convention, frankly admitted the failure of the policy which gave birth to these treaties, and the futility of relying upon Turkish promises.