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The English-led Turk army has risen up and gone forth to meet me. It is Fate." He had a drink of water given to him, and then the General asked him if he knew El Obeid well. "Every street, every corner of the ramparts," he replied. "Did I not take part in the defence when the Mahdi may his grave be defiled! was driven from them with slaughter?" "You may ride with us," said the General.
And thus, despite the fusion of races and of the great contributions of other nations to her 100 millions of people and to her incalculable wealth, the United States is yet English-led and English-ruled."
But the anti-British elements on this side of the water, taking "English-led and English-ruled" out of its context, misinterpreted the phrase as meaning that the American Ambassador had approvingly called attention to the fact that the United States was at present under the political control of Great Britain!
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