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as you can imagine. The Committee of Union,
whose names nobody knows for certain, are
virtual dictators, their power resting on the
army. It is Cromwellian England over again with
a dash of Venice. This would not matter
so much if the Committee were really
sympathetic to the average Turk. But they are
mostly quaint Positivist intellectuals, whose
one strong interest is military; and they
are both hostile to and afraid of ordinary
Islamic feeling. Consequently there is a danger
of religious fanaticism in the provinces
getting alarmed, and I should be afraid
of another anti-Armenian outbreak
fairly soon.

I was very much impressed with Pliny's