[35] Parliamentary Debates, House of Commons, fifth series, Volume 21 (1911), pp. 241–242.
[36] Cf. H. N. Brailsford, The War of Steel and Gold, Chapter III, “The Egyptian Model.”
[37] Supra, pp. 181–182.
[38] André Tardieu, France and the Alliances (New York, 1908), p. 46. For M. Tardieu’s analysis of the causes of the growing Anglo-German hostility, cf. pp. 48–57. It was in the latter part of April, 1903, that the Bagdad Railway negotiations fell through. In May, Edward VII paid an official visit to Paris; in October, an arbitration agreement was signed by France and Great Britain. The following spring the treaties constituting the Entente Cordiale were executed. Sir Thomas Barclay, Thirty Years’ Reminiscences (London, 1906), pp. 175 et seq. For the text of these agreements cf. Parliamentary Papers, Volume 103 (1905), No. Cd. 2384.
[39] For the text of the Anglo-Russian Entente, cf. British and Foreign State Papers, Volume 100, pp. 555 et seq. Regarding the nature of the Anglo-Russian rivalry in the Middle East and the effect of the Bagdad Railway in hastening a settlement of that rivalry, cf. Edouard Driault, La question d’Orient depuis ses origines jusqu’à la paix de Sèvres (Paris, 1921), Chapter VIII, and pp. 273 et seq.; also Tardieu, op. cit., pp. 239–252, and Curzon, op. cit., Volume II, Chapter XXX.
[40] Ernst Jäckh, Die deutsch-türkische Waffenbrüderschaft (Stuttgart, 1915), pp. 17–18.
[41] Sir William Willcocks (1852- ) is one of the foremost authorities on Egypt, India, and Mesopotamia. As a young man he was employed in India by the Department of Public Works and for a period of eleven years, 1872–1883, was engaged in the construction of the famous irrigation works there. From 1883–1893, he was employed in a similar capacity by the Egyptian Public Works and was largely responsible for the development of irrigation in the Nile Valley. In 1898, he planned and projected the Assuan Dam, which turned out to be the greatest irrigation work in the East. In 1909, Sir William Willcocks became consulting engineer to the Ottoman Ministry of Public Works, and was responsible for the construction, 1911–1913, by the British firm of Sir John Jackson, Ltd., of the famous Hindie barrage, the first step in the irrigation of the Valley of the Two Rivers.
[42] Mesopotamia, p. 54, and The Geographical Journal, August, 1912.
[43] The Recreation of Chaldea (Cairo, 1902). This suggestion led to the absurd charge by Dr. Rohrbach that Sir William Willcocks was actively promoting the establishment of a British colonial empire in southern Mesopotamia. German World Policies, pp. 160–161. Cf., also, Diplomatic and Consular Reports, No. 3140 (1903), p. 27.