Real Turkish unification is my dearest wish, and any international political arrangement which will leave me a free hand to work for that, I will subscribe to. Turkey contains a great many Christians as well as Mohammedans. The latter I would regenerate from within, not from without. The West has little that we need save battleships and shrapnels, and if it would leave us alone we would not need even these.

The plans of all of the powers have always been entirely selfish as far as Turkey was concerned. For years Russia has coveted Constantinople, to say nothing of…

We are taking care of our troops today, hence their loyalty. Formerly a rifle was given to a man and he had to shift for himself.

Ah, my brave Arabs! If I could only gather them in from all their desert ways, and arm them properly:But I fear it cannot be. They are drifting in by tens and …