[18] It should be made clear that not all the terms of the Franco-German agreement were carried out before the beginning of the Great War. Because of the delay in the negotiations with Great Britain (_cf._ _infra_) the exchange of Bagdad Railway securities for Imperial Ottoman Bonds was not completed, with the result that, when the War came, French bankers still held an interest in the Bagdad Railway Company. [19] _Parliamentary Debates, House of Commons_, fifth series, Volume 59 (1914), pp. 2179–2189. Sir Mark Sykes (1879–1919) had traveled extensively in the Near and Far East and was the author of many books on the political and economic problems of those regions. During the Great War he was commissioned by the British Government to negotiate with France regarding the delimitation of the Allies’ interests in Mesopotamia and Syria. He was one of the authors of the Sykes-Picot Treaty of 1916. [20] _Supra_, pp. 111–112, 228–229. [21] Memorandum of Djavid Bey, cited in Chapter IX, _supra_. [22] Haldane, _op. cit._, _passim_; W. von Hohenzollern, _My Memoirs, 1878–1918_, pp. 142–156; _supra_, pp. 198–199; _The Annual Register_, 1912, pp. 16, 332; Count de Lalaing, Belgian Minister in London, to M. Davignon, Belgian Minister of Foreign Affairs, February 9 and 16, 1912, despatches Nos. 88 and 90, translated in Morel, _op. cit._, pp. 228–230. [23] _Supra_, pp. 205–207. [24] Baron Marschall died in September, 1912, after only a few weeks of service at his new post. He was succeeded by Prince Lichnowsky, who took up his duties in London in November. Regarding the lecture tour of Sir Harry Johnston see the authentic account by Bernadotte Schmitt, _England and Germany, 1740–1914_, pp. 355–356. Herr von Jagow’s opinion of the importance of an Anglo-German understanding on the Near East is to be found in his reply to Prince Lichnowsky, in the _Norddeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung_ of March 23, 1918, translated by Munroe Smith, _The Disclosures from Germany_, pp. 130–131. [25] Regarding the Anglo-Turkish negotiations _cf._ _Parliamentary Debates, House of Commons_, Volume 53 (1913), pp. 392–395; _Stenographische Berichte, XIII Legislaturperiode, 1 Session_, Volume 291 (1913), pp. 6274c-6294d; Karl Helfferich, _Die Vorgeschichte des Weltkrieges_, pp. 143 _et seq._; _Mesopotamia_, pp. 97–98; _The Times_ (London), May 17 and May 31, 1913; _The Quarterly Review_, Volume 228 (1917), pp. 517–521; de Siebert, _op. cit._, Chapter XX. [26] _Parliamentary Debates, House of Commons_, Volume 53 (1913), p. 393. [27] _Stenographische Berichte, XIII Legislaturperiode, 1 Session_, Volume 289 (1913), p. 4744d. _Cf._, also, _ibid._, pp. 4744c-4746c; Volume 290 (1913), p. 5326a-c. [28] For copies of this and other agreements the author is indebted to Dr. von Gwinner, of the _Deutsche Bank_.