The Bridgehead of Asia Minor.

As long as the leading naval power of modern times has its home in the Atlantic, Asia Minor, must inevitably remain a position of commanding and decisive importance. A hostile power in Asia Minor always threatens Suez; without Suez England cannot command the Pacific, and without English supremacy in the Pacific, the U.S. standing there is at once jeopardized. The Baghdad railway is one form of the Asia Minor problem, and to any one familiar with the history of the Near East it is simply a catchword which suggests all the fundamental problems of the first world war; for in one connection or another it involves them all.