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But what I want to know is, how did war come back again? and how did they make those poisonous gases you speak of? We should be glad to know; for they might come in very handy if we have to fight Turania. Of course I am all for peace, and don't hold with the race of armaments in principle; still, we must keep ahead or be wiped out.
I raise this hammer; I point the barrel at you; I pull this trigger that is against my forefinger; and you fall dead. I never trust my life in the hands of a person over whom I have no control. Kamerad! THE ORACLE. Give me that thing. Do you expect me to stoop for it? Emperor of Turania! cry for quarter. THE ORACLE. The way out of your difficulty, Cain Adamson, is very simple. What is it?
Believe me, you would not be as comfortable in Turania as you would be with us. We understand you. We like you. We are easy-going people; and we are rich people. That will appeal to you. Turania is a poor place when all is said. Five-eighths of it is desert. They dont irrigate as we do. Besides now I am sure this will appeal to you and to all right-minded men we are Christians.
I am here simply as a gentleman travelling for pleasure in the company of my daughter, who is the wife of the British Prime Minister, and of General Aufsteig, who, I may tell you in confidence, is really the Emperor of Turania, the greatest military genius of the age. ZOO. Why should you travel for pleasure! Can you not enjoy yourself at home? THE ELDERLY GENTLEMAN. I wish to see the World.
The Envoy meanwhile passes along behind the columns to the door, followed by his daughter. The Elderly Gentleman stops just where he entered, to see why Zoo has swooped so abruptly on the Emperor of Turania. You have no business to go about here alone. What was that noise just now? What is that in your hand? Napoleon glares at her in speechless fury; pockets the pistol; and produces a whistle.
And at the base of this monstrous poltroon's statue the War God of Turania is now gibbering impotently. ZOO. Serve him right! War God indeed! THE ENVOY. Well, perhaps I do; and perhaps history makes me. I hardly recognize myself in the newspapers sometimes, though I suppose leading articles are the materials of history, as you might say.
A field is something physical, is it not. Well, I have a field. NAPOLEON. I have several million fields. I am Emperor of Turania. THE ORACLE. You do not understand. I am not speaking of an agricultural field. Do you not know that every mass of matter in motion carries with it an invisible gravitational field, every magnet an invisible magnetic field, and every living organism a mesmeric field?
Still better known to my heart is Oghuz Khan . In me he still lives in all his fame and greatness. Oghuz Khan delights and inspires my heart and causes me to sing psalms of gladness. The fatherland of the Turks is not Turkey or Turkestan, but the broad eternal land of Turania." I wonder why we are called Ottomans, for who is Osman after whom we are named?
As Tekin Alp expresses it: "The Turks realised that, in order to live, they must become essentially Turkish, become a nation, be themselves.... The Turkish nation turned aside its gaze from the lost territory and looked instead upon Turania, the ideal country of the future." Two years later this "New Orientation" had so mastered the Ottoman Government that it drew them into the European War.
In fact, Russia, with its Tartars, Turkomans, Kirghiz, Finns, and numerous kindred tribes, was in Pan-Turanian eyes merely a Slav alluvium laid with varying thickness over a Turanian subsoil. This turning of Russia into a vast "Turania irredenta" was certainly an ambitious order. Nevertheless, the Pan-Turanians counted on powerful Western backing.
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