Gordon at Khartoum : $b being a personal narrative of events

· 1922

“_We are an honest nation, but our diplomatists are conies, and not officially honest._”—GORDON. IN the present volume, which is a continuation of my “Secret History of the Occupation of Egypt,” I take up once more the task of chronicling the events of my time. Lord Cromer’s recent book, “Modern Egypt,” makes this a duty to the truth which I feel ought not to be postponed, while there is also the hope that by insistence it may still be possible to direct those in power with us to adopt an attitude towards the Mohammedan World less antagonistic than in the past to its thoughts and feelings.…

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