تقارير وأوراق للجنة الإدارة المصرية [و‎‎٤‎٦] (١٠٨/٩١)

It is no use trying to conceal the fact that v. r e are at V/ar with
Tuakey. V/e must hit at the Turk where ewer we find him. Our
policy, in Egypt at any rate and in the Kiddle East generally,
has keen to hack the Arab against the Turk, Certain I'cslcms
and (the Turks)have disappointed us and earned our punishment
through German machinations. We should go ahead pinning our
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not popular, except on religious grounds. The Turkish govern
ment in its oppression and cruelty is hated not only by the
Arab but by the Soudanese, who also it is said dislike the
Egyptians. It is only on religious grounds in India, where
they have never met him, and in Egypt among those classes which
are really Turkish that he finds friends, and the quarrel of
the Arabs themselves is rather with the Turkish Government than
with the Turks. Whatever the result of the Arab movement may
be, it has been a good War move, and the one thing that would
destroy our influence in the Eohammedan world for over would,
it seems to me, be now to swap horses. We have mo.de War on the
Turk; we must finish the War with the *Turk. We must not
desert the Arabs whom wc have organised against the Turk. The
Turk in his pan-Turanian movement has given us plenty of mater
ial for demonstrating how really opposed hir ambitions are to
Moslem ambitions. That movement must be used for all it is
worth for propaganda pur.- uses, both in Arabia and in India,
where the Indian Government has, I think, been regrettably slow
to conduct anti-Turkish propaganda. That slowness is an exampk
of what I mean when I talk of an endeavour to conceal the fact
that we are at War with Turkey. We must play the A rab a^d the
non-Turkish Mohammedan, and flatly confess cur hostility to
Turkey now; we cannot draw back. The late Khedive was always
intriguing, with considerable success, among the Arabs. Kis
efforts have been really used by us, but they were conducted