How, I don't know, but I could see quite plainly that in some subtle way Germany was regarded as a collaborator in the movement.

It is that belief that is keeping the present regime going.
The ordinary Turk loathes the Committee, but he has some queer perverted expectation from Germany.

It is not a case of Enver and the rest carrying on their shoulders the unpopular Teuton; it is a case of the Teuton carrying the unpopular Committee.

And Germany's graft is just this and nothing more--that she has some hand in the coming of the new deliverer.
'They talk about the thing quite openly.

It is called the _Kaaba-i-hurriyeh_, the Palladium of Liberty.