But to remove that suzerainty, to deprive the Khalif of the wardenship of the Holy Places is to render Khilafat a mockery which no Mahomedan can possibly look upon with equanimity, I am not alone in my interpretation of the pledge.  The Right Hon’ble Ameer Ali calls the peace terms a breach of faith.  Mr. Charles Roberts reminds the British public that the Indian Mussalman sentiment regarding the Turkish Treaty is based upon the Prime Minister’s pledge “regarding Thrace, Constantinople and Turkish lands in Asia Minor, repeated on February 26 last with deliberation by Mr. Lloyd George.  Mr. Roberts holds that the pledge must be treated as a whole, not as binding only regarding Constantinople but also binding as regards Thrace and Asia Minor.  He describes the pledge as binding upon the nation as a whole and its breach in any part as a gross breach of faith on the part of the British Empire.  He demands that if there is an unanswerable reply to the charge of breach of faith it ought to be given and adds the Prime Minister may regard his own word lightly if he chooses, but he has no right to break a pledge given on behalf of the nation.  He concludes that it is incredible that such pledge should not have been kept in the letter and in the spirit.”  He adds:  “I have reason to believe that these views are fully shared by prominent members of the Cabinet.”

I wonder if Mr. Candler knows what is going on to-day in England.  Mr. Pickthall writing in New Age says:  “No impartial international enquiry into the whole question of the Armenian massacres has been instituted in the ample time which has elapsed since the conclusion of armistice with Turkey.  The Turkish Government has asked for such enquiry.  But the Armenian organisations and the Armenian partisans refuse to hear of such a thing, declaring that the Bryce and Lepssens reports are quite sufficient to condemn the Turks.  In other words the judgment should be given on the case for prosecution alone.  The inter-allied commission which investigated the unfortunate events in Smyrna last year, made a report unfavourable to Greek claims.  Therefore, that report has not been published here in England, though in other countries it has long been public property.”  He then goes on to show how money is being scattered by Armenian and Greek emissaries in order to popularise their cause and adds:  “This conjunction of dense ignorance and cunning falsehood is fraught with instant danger to the British realm,” and concludes:  “A Government and people which prefer propaganda to fact as the ground of policy—­and foreign policy at that—­is self-condemned.”