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 72 and Becker give their interpretations of them, and the Turks have been so energetically reminded of them that Nazim-bey quoted them in his address to the German ambassador and that the Sultan by mistake borrowed from them the oftentimes corrected, at any rate very antiquated, census-figures of his manifesto.

Till recently Becker, "through ignorance," as he now avers, has "considered this emphasizing of the Caliph-title by Germany as a mistake; but now, after Prince von Bülow's explanations in Deutschland unter Kaiser Wilhelm II., he joyfully discovers in it the first powerful expression of "a conscious German Islâm-policy" and the proof "that German policy has from the first taken Islâm into account as an international factor." Becker’s scientific conscience, in this conversion and in his defence of the adoption of the Caliphate among the factors of