Descriptive portraiture of Europe in storm and calm; twenty years' experiences and reminiscences of an American journalist, sketches and records of noted events, celebrated persons and places, national and international affairs in France, Spain, Germany, Great Britain, Holland, Belgium, Austria, Hungary, Roumania, Turkey-in-Europe, Switzerland and Italy . 790 EUROPE IN STORM AND CALM. have made such gigantic strides in tliedirection of the Indian frontier; butLord Beaconsfield wanted to undertakea task for which lie would have neededseven times the military resources at hiscommand. He wished t
Descriptive portraiture of Europe in storm and calm; twenty years' experiences and reminiscences of an American journalist, sketches and records of noted events, celebrated persons and places, national and international affairs in France, Spain, Germany, Great Britain, Holland, Belgium, Austria, Hungary, Roumania, Turkey-in-Europe, Switzerland and Italy . 790 EUROPE IN STORM AND CALM. have made such gigantic strides in tliedirection of the Indian frontier; butLord Beaconsfield wanted to undertakea task for which lie would have neededseven times the military resources at hiscommand. He wished to get completecontrol in Afghanistan, to make thenorth-west frontier of India impregnableagainst the Russians, while at the sametime he prevented Russia from securingher coveted outlets in the south, andfrom protecting her kindred in thesouth-east of Europe. What hesucceeded in doing was in strength-ening Russian hostility to England,. Hiil^h PALACE OF THE SULTAN- AT CONSTANTrNOPLE and increasing Russian determination towrest from England complete assent toa policy of assimilation, if not absorp-tion, in south-eastern Europe. To-dayRussia is hammering at the Afghan gates and this is as true now as it was whenthe brilliant Frenchman said it. TheTurkish empire, with its innumerabletraditions, with its religious formulasand its fanaticism, its lust of conquestand its rapacity and injustice in deal-ing with subjugated provinces, will re-main in history as a warning to civilizedpowers not to degenerate into role in Europe is practically at anend, and this is a sufficient gain for themoment. The en-thusiastic Slavs, whosay that out of thetwo hundred andeighty million inhab-itants of Europethere are eighty-sixmillions of their ownnationality ; that theyare more numerousthan the Germanicrace, and occupy awider space in Eu-rope than both theGermanic and Latinraces, doubtlesshoped that out ofrecent events wouldbe
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