A world in perplexity . Q Keystone View Co. Native Girl of Lebanon, Syria, at the Linen Loom The Greatest Single Factor Summarizing these remarkable statements, we havethe following: 1. The Bagdad Railway project was the most sig-nificant single factor contributing to the outbreak ofthe long-foreseen war in 1914. 2. It will form one of the most momentous prob-lems when the time for the peace negotiations arrives. 3. From its inception it has been the core of theEastern Question. CJEJ m M Ul CO ]^t 03 ^> < CQ .,. Obsiacies to Peace 47 4. It has been a nightmare resting heavily on allEurop
A world in perplexity . Q Keystone View Co. Native Girl of Lebanon, Syria, at the Linen Loom The Greatest Single Factor Summarizing these remarkable statements, we havethe following: 1. The Bagdad Railway project was the most sig-nificant single factor contributing to the outbreak ofthe long-foreseen war in 1914. 2. It will form one of the most momentous prob-lems when the time for the peace negotiations arrives. 3. From its inception it has been the core of theEastern Question. CJEJ m M Ul CO ]^t 03 ^> < CQ .,. Obsiacies to Peace 47 4. It has been a nightmare resting heavily on allEurope for eighteen years. 5. No step ever taken by any European poweranywhere has caused so much trouble, given rise toso many complications, and has been such a constantmenace to the peace of the world. 6. It has been a veritable curse, an excrescenceon the body politic of Europe. 7. The control of this highway is the key to theEast — the Near East and the Farther East as well. The Life-Cord of Nations Threatened Why the storm-center of this world war should bein Asiatic Turkey; why the control of the Mediterra-nean Sea should lead to such a war; and why theBagdad Railway project should be such a significantfactor in precipitating this mighty struggle of thenations, is forcibly presented by Frederic C. Howein his book, Why War. His statement is worthyof most careful study: The nations whose interests are most in conflictare Great Britain, Germany, and Russia. The economicclash is primarily between Germany and G
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