This contingency gives to the national movement in Egypt an importance which it would not otherwise possess; it clearly shows that England intensely fears every Pan-Islamitic movement.
She is trying with all the resources of political intrigue to undermine the growing power of Turkey, which she officially pretends to support, and is endeavouring to create in Arabia a new religious centre in opposition to the Caliphate.
The same views are partially responsible for the policy in India, where some seventy millions of Moslems live under the English rule.

England, so far, in accordance with the principle of _divide et impera_, has attempted to play off the Mohammedan against the Hindu population.

But now that a pronounced revolutionary and nationalist tendency shows itself among these latter, the danger is imminent that Pan-Islamism, thoroughly roused, should unite with the revolutionary elements of Bengal.

The co-operation of these elements might create a very grave danger, capable of shaking the foundations of England's high position in the world.
While so many dangers, in the future at least, threaten both at home and abroad, English imperialism has failed to link the vast Empire together, either for purposes of commerce or defence, more closely than hitherto.
Mr.Chamberlain's dream of the British Imperial Customs Union has definitely been abandoned.

No attempt was made at the Imperial Conference in 1911 to go back to it.