Mr. Churchill seems to be gifted with something of the type of imaginative statesmanship for which Disracli_was pre-eminent. Disfaeli conjured up wonderful Eastern empires arising out of the revived glories of disrupted countries, and in trying to translate his dreams into some measure of practical form he carried in the face of opposition the act which made Queen Victoria Empress of India. To-day Mr. Churchill, in like manner, ex-dresses a belief in the future, of mesopotamia. The Emir Feisul is undoubtedly the man on whom he has cast his eye to be successor to the Caliphs of gorgeous memory, and in truth the Emir seems to be the man most suited in that part of the world to undertake the role. He stands, to the for-sign onlooker -at least, head and
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