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Lord Cromer further comments on the failure of the attempt

to preach a Holy War as illustrating the faultiness of German forecasts where Eastern affairs are concerned. To begin with, apart from loyalty, material interests Loth in India and Egypt are on the side of the Allies. The influence of the Sultan as Kaliph, never universally recognized, has been impaired of late years, while "there is something almost humorous in the idea that an invitation to war against the infidel could with any hope of success be made to appeal to the adherents of Islam when the Kaliph was himself in alliance with two infidel Governments."