Socially the cleft between the two camps is far deeper than it is politically, for many of these same people accommodate themselves, though with reluctance in their heart, to sharing at least formally as Senators in the responsibility for the present Young Turkish policy. They have to do so, for otherwise they would simply be flung mercilessly by Enver's Clique on to the streets to beg for bread. This is how it comes about to-day that, with very few exceptions, the Senators, who, to tell the truth, have as little practical say as the members of the Lower House, are all outwardly complaisant followers of the "Committee." The more doctrinal, but at any rate courageous and honourable opposition of Ahmed Riza is likewise of very little significance. Once, about the middle of December, 1916, Enver even went so far as to hurl the epithet "shameless dog" at Ahmed Riza in the Senate without being called to order by the President. The Deputies are also, with even fewer exceptions than the Senators--only one or two are reasonable men--all slaves pure and simple of Enver and Talaat. The Lower House is nothing but a set of employees paid by the Clique. In other countries now at war the Lower House may have sunk to the level of a laughing-stock; in Turkey it has become the instrument of crime. And it is these same toadies and parasites, who daily carry out this military dictator's will in Parliament, that he daily treats with scarcely veiled irony and open and complete disdain. These are the "representatives of the people" in Turkey in war-time! FOOTNOTES: [Footnote 2: Djemal Pasha learnt the news that Admiral von Souchon had bombarded Russian ports, and so made war inevitable, one evening at the Club. Pale with rage, he sprang up and said: "So be it; but if things go wrong, Souchon will be the first to be hanged."] CHAPTER X The outlook for the future--The consequences of trusting Germany--The Entente's death sentence on Turkey--The social necessity for this deliverance--Anatolia, the new Turkey after the war--Forecasts about the Turkish race--The Turkish element in the lost territory--Russia and Constantinople; international guarantees--Germany, at peace, benefits too--Farewell to the German "World-politicians"--German interests in a victorious and in an amputated Turkey--The German-Turkish treaty--A paradise on earth--The Russian commercial impetus--The new Armenia--Western Anatolia, the old Greek centre of civilization--Great Arabia and Syria--The reconciliation of Germany. We have come to the end of our sketches. The question before us now is: What will become of Turkey? The Entente has pronounced formal sentence of death on the Empire of the Sultan, and neither the slowly fading military power of Turkey, nor the help of Germany, who is herself already virtually conquered, will be able to arrest her fate.