John Morley: “Criticises action of British plenipotentiaries at Berlin Congress.”

I think they will commit a great error if they take this course.

I think any man who lays down a firm proposition that all is well, or any man who says that all is ill--either of those two men is probably wrong.

He was a soldier of infinite personal courage and daring; of striking military energy, initiative, and resource; a high, pure, and single character, dwelling much in the region of the unseen.

The general situation in Egypt had latterly become one in which everything was governed by sheer military violence.