The Life of Spencer Compton Eighth Duke of Devonshire volume 1
The Life of Spencer Compton Eighth Duke of Devonshire volume 1
Holland, Bernard Henry, 1856-1926
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' Had he then dissolved he would have won, it was thought, the General Election. The Liberals were, however, in duty bound to perform a piece of retrospective criticism, and to exhibit as best they could the vanity of all this glory achieved by their opponents. On July 29th Lord Hartington moved Resolutions ex- pressing regret that the Greek claims had not been met at Berlin, that by the Asiatic guarantee the military liabilities of this country had been extended, that the Government ^ This arr...angement only endured for a few years. 212 THE EASTERN QUESTION ch. Ix. had entered into responsibilities for administrative reforms in Asia Minor which they could not fulfil, and that these engagements had been entered into and responsibilities incurred (horrible to say) ' without the previous knowledge of Parliament. ' The affair was a sham fight, but it allowed Lord Hartington to make an excellent historical resume of the whole history. His real mind was in this sentence : ' I believe that the future of the inhabitants of what remains of the dominions of Turkey will ultimately be determined by internal and natural causes rather than by causes which are external and artificial, and I rejoice that a temporary solution has been arrived at which will leave scope for those natural causes to work, and will not replace the military domination of Turkey by the military domination of Russia or the Slav over unwilling races.
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