Sir, I have the honour to request, that you will be pleased to favour the committee now sitting to investigate the grievances connected with the lands of the colony, with your reply to the following queries. The committee will be obliged by your returning an answer at your earliest convenience, addressed to the Chairman of the Committee, Council Chamber, under cover to the Clerk of the Legislative Council. I have &c. (signed) WM. MACPHERSON, Clerk of the Legislative Council. [...]
Shortly after one o’clock, the assembled guests sat down to a sumptuous dejeuner à la fourchette, with champagne and other choice wines, servers by Messieurs Vallauri, the Pera confectioners, on several elegantly arranged tables on both sides of the Pera station. At the dessert, Mr. Albert, the general manager, proposed “The Health of His Imperial Majesty Sultan Abdul-Aziz.”
A segregated Germany, which developed in a manner unrelated to Western Europe would constitute a danger to Western Europe and our objectives. Economically, the interrelationship of Germany and the rest of Western Europe is so close and Germany’s economic potential so great that if it were again to pursue a policy of seeking only its own economic well-being and the greatest degree of autarchy, it might well dominate Western Europe.[...]