The Question of Northern Epirus At the Peace Conference
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Mr. Charles Dilke cleverly said of the diplomats of Europe : "AVhat is Europe anyway? A number of wicked old gentlemen with decorations assembled around a green table. " Signor San Giuliano, Herr Berchtold, and Sir Edward Grey belonged to the old school, which taught that "might is right, " which did not care for the fate of small peoples, which bargained, bought and sold freely, remorselessly, the liberties, the lives, and the souls of unfortunate peoples which were fighting for the liberty an...d the civilization of Europe. What cared San Giuliano if the brave Epirotes, as cul- tured as the countrymen of Cavour, with wives as dear, and daughters as well brought up as those of the citizens 60 THE QUESTION OF NORTHERN EPIRUS of Rome, were to be exposed to the brutality of those un- fortunate savages of Albania? But why should we wonder at the callousness of the old European diplomats in the case of Epirus, when we know that all the Christian peoples of Turkey have groaned under the inhuman tyranny of the Moslems, and the great Powers have time and again discouraged and hindered the Christian slaves from overthrowing their oppressor?
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