England And Palestine Essays Towards the Restoration of the Jewish State
England And Palestine Essays Towards the Restoration of the Jewish State
Herbert Sidebotham
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England, in fact, took the side of Russia in order to defeat, if not her policy, at any rate the dangers that that policy might bring in its train. By the Treaty of London, 1840, England and Russia agreed to respect the ancient rule of the Ottoman Empire, closing the Dardanelles to every military flag so long as the Porte was at peace. By article III of the Treaty arrangements were made for the fleets of both Powers to enter the Straits and defend Constantinople, should Mehemet Ali attack it, b...ut by article IV it was provided that such co-operation OLD BRITISH POLICY IN TURKEY 115 " shall be considered only as a measure of exception at the express demand of the Sultan and solely for its defence in the single case above mentioned. . . . Such measures shall not derogate in any degree from the ancient rule of the Ottoman Empire in virtue of which it has in all times been prohibited for ships of war in foreign Powers to enter the Straits of the Dardanelles and the Bosphorus, and the Sultan on the one hand hereby declares that except in the contingency above mentioned, it is his firm resolution to maintain in future this principle invariably established as the ancient rule of his Empire and as long as the Porte is at peace, to admit no foreign ships of war into the Straits of the Bosphorus and of the Dar- danelles; on the other hand, their Majesties the Queen of the United Kingdom and of Great Britain and Ireland, the Emperor of Austria, King of Hungary and Bohemia, the King of Prussia, and the Emperor of all the Russias, engage to respect this determination of the Sultan, and to conform to the above mentioned principle.
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