1903 The Uganda Project
British Colonial Secretary Joseph Chamberlain proposed a Jewish Homeland on 5,000 square miles of the Mau Mau Plateau in Uganda what is today Kenya. The proposal was declined by the Zionist Congress in 1905. Source: Wiki
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November 6, 1902 The Great Game / Russia and India
“In Afghanistan the situation is almost as bad as it can be… Professing to Russia to direct the foreign policy of the Afghans, we are unable to direct or control it… The Amir…is a factor in the balance of power, who can play us off against Russia and Russia against us, and the whole position […]
February 17, 1902 The Great Game / Russia and India
Russian Foreign Minister Vladimir Nikolaevich Lamsdorff: “In Russia, Great Britain had for a century, at least, been regarded by the mass of the people as the one power always to the fore in baulking at every conjuncture the national aspirations and barring the natural development and expansion of Russia.” Source: Public Records Office /FO65/1640/56: ‘Anglo-Japanese […]
February 15, 1902 Theodor Herzl
Dr. Theodor Herzl made a four-day visit to Constantinople. His purpose, as guest of the Sultan, was to further the cause of Zionism by strengthening relations with Turkey and the Ottoman Empire. A pertinent entry from his diary states: “The Sultan is willing to open his Empire to all Jews who become Turkish subjects, but […]
1901 The Great Game / Russia and India
Rudyard Kipling, Kim wrote: “Now I shall go far and far into the North (e.g. Afghanistan), playing the Great Game…”
1901 The Great Game / Germany, Russia and India
“As long as we rule India we are the greatest power in the world,” he (e.g. Lord Curzon) pontificated in 1901. “If we lose it we shall drop straight away to a third rate power.” Viewing the empire from this India-centric perspective Curzon saw Britain’s victories in the Middle East as a golden company to […]
November 27, 1899 The Great Game
The Great Game THE BERLIN TO BAGHDAD RAIL ROAD On November 27, 1899, the Germans were given a definite concession to extend the railway (from Berlin) to Baghdad. Included in the concession were guarantees of a certain revenue per kilometer of track laid–the so called kilometer guarantees–and carefully worded provisions spelling out German rights to […]
Sep 1899 Captain Dreyfus is Pardoned
Captain Dreyfus is Pardoned
1899 The Great Game
The Great Game In 1611, the East India Company established a cotton factory in India. Beginning in the 18th century and over the next century, large areas of India were annexed by the East India Company. Dissatisfaction with Company rule led to the Indian Rebellion of 1857, after which the provinces of India were directly […]
1899 Mark Twain
“If statistics are right, the Jews constitute but one percent of the human race. It suggests a nebulous dim puff of stardust lost in the blaze of the Milky Way. Properly, the Jew ought hardly to be heard of, but he is heard of, has always been heard of. He is as prominent on the […]