Crescent and Iron Cross
CRESCENT AND IRON CROSS BY E.F. BENSON _Crescent and Iron Cross, Preface_ In compiling the following pages I have had access to certain sources of official information, the nature of which I am not at liberty to specify further. I have used these freely in such chapters of this book as deal with recent and contemporary events in Turkey or in Germany in connection with Turkey: the chapter, for instance, entitled 'Deutschland ueber Allah,' is based very largely on such documents. I have tried to be discriminating in their use, and have not, as far as I am aware, stated anything derived from them as a fact, for which I had not found corroborative evidence. With regard to the Armenian massacres I have drawn largely on the testimony collected by Lord Bryce, on that brought
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CONTENTS.
THE RIGHT OF WAY
COALS OF FIRE
A NEW PLEASURE
THE DAUGHTER-IN-LAW
SMITH AND JONES; OR, THE TOWN LOT
HE MUST HAVE MEANT ME
FOR THE FUN OF IT
FORGIVE AND FORGET
PAYING THE MINISTER
HAD I BEEN CONSULTED
THE MISTAKES OF A "RISING FAMILY"
THE MEANS OF ENJOYMENT
CRESCENT AND IRON CROSS BY E.F. BENSON _Crescent and Iron Cross, Preface_ In compiling the following pages I have had access to certain sources of official information, the nature of which I am not at liberty to specify further. I have used these freely in such chapters of this book as deal with recent and contemporary events in Turkey or in Germany in connection with Turkey: the chapter, for instance, entitled 'Deutschland ueber Allah,' is based very largely on such documents. I have tried to be discriminating in their use, and have not, as far as I am aware, stated anything derived from them as a fact, for which I had not found corroborative evidence. With regard to the Armenian massacres I have drawn largely on the testimony collected by Lord Bryce, on that brought