The Eastern Question And a Suppressed Chapter of History Napoleon Iii And the K
The Eastern Question And a Suppressed Chapter of History Napoleon Iii And the K
Stuart F Weld
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Here were two States kept apart by the obstinacy of two great Christian powers, England and Austria, powers which acted in the interest of . Turkey. They served, of course, their own interests, so far as they understood them. The apprehension of England was that Russia, through the conquest of Turkey and the possession of Constantinople, would become a vast overshadowing power, a peril to Europe and the British possessions in Asia. One question to be decided was as follows, whether by liberatin...g and strengthening the Christian nationalities of Turkey, precisely in the way that these objects have been ac- complished, a stronger barrier might not be erected against Russia than through attempts to bolster up the Turk. The latter was the method of England, -that of oppression. The former was the method of Gladstone, Napoleon, and France, that of freedom. The fixed purpose of the Principalities was manifest in the action of the new legislatures elected under the Conven- tion of 1858. When the time came to elect in each State an executive, or Hospodar, the same man was chosen!
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