XXVIII. ENVER AGAIN MOVES FOR PEACE--FAREWELL TO THE SULTAN AND TO TURKEY 253 XXIX. VON JAGOW, ZIMMERMAN, AND GERMAN-AMERICANS 261 ILLUSTRATIONS AMBASSADOR HENRY MORGENTHAU _Frontispiece_ BARON WANGENHEIM, GERMAN AMBASSADOR _facing page_ 32 M. TOCHEFF, BULGARIAN MINISTER AT CONSTANTINOPLE 33 “GOEBEN” IN THE SEA OF MARMORA 48 “BRESLAU” (_left_) AT THE GOLDEN HORN 49 ENVER PASHA, MINISTER OF WAR 112 TALAAT PASHA, GRAND VIZIER 112 BUSTÁNY EFFENDI, EX-MINISTER OF COMMERCE AND AGRICULTURE 113 DJEMAL PASHA, MINISTER OF MARINE 113 MR. MORGENTHAU AND SIR LOUIS MALLET 116 SIR LOUIS MALLET AND M. BOMPARD 116 BEDRI BEY, PREFECT OF POLICE 117 TALAAT AND VON KÜHLMANN 117 SEDD-UL-BAHR FORTIFICATION 144 FORT DARDANOS 145 MOHAMMED V., SULTAN OF TURKEY 176 TCHEMENLIK AND FORT ANADOLU HAMIDIÉ 177 SHEIK-UL-ISLAM PROCLAIMING A HOLY WAR 192 THE BOSPHORUS, KEY TO THE BLACK SEA 193 Secrets of the Bosphorus CHAPTER I A GERMAN SUPERMAN AT CONSTANTINOPLE I am writing these reminiscences of my ambassadorship at a moment when Germany’s schemes in the Turkish Empire and the Near East have achieved an apparent success. The Central Powers have disintegrated Russia, have transformed the Baltic and the Black Seas into German lakes, and have obtained a new route to the East by way of the Caucasus. Germany now dominates Serbia, Bulgaria, Rumania, and Turkey, and regards her aspirations for a new Teutonic Empire, extending from the North Sea to the Persian Gulf, as practically realised. The world now knows, though it did not clearly understand this fact in 1914, that Germany precipitated the war to destroy Serbia, seize control of the Balkan nations, transform Turkey into a vassal state, and thus obtain a huge oriental empire that would form the basis for unlimited world dominion. Do these German aggressions in the East mean that this extensive programme has succeeded?