The Keys of the World

Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Mar 21, 1911

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 38, No. 12.

The Keys of the World

The Keys of the World.—John Fisher, the maker of England's navy, believes in the world rule of the Anglo-Saxons. In the London daily News he recently said with much enthusiasm: "Has it ever occurred to you that there are five keys to the world—the Straits of Dover, the Straits of Gibraltar, the Suez Canal, the Straits of Malacca, the Cape of Good Hope? And we hold every one of them!" There is still another, Constantinople, which England would greatly like to control, for the same reason that she controls the others—they are keys to mighty situations. But while she does not possess Constantinople—the Straits of the Hellespont and Bosporus—she will take care that no other nation possesses them. Hence her anxious care of Turkey all these years. Will a seventh key be the Persian Gulf? or the Straits of Ormuz?