The near East from within . I 0) S o uu Alexander as Grown Prince i8i After the renunciation of Prince George mattersbecame at once easier for the partisans of Russia. PrinceAlexander submitted readily to the advice of M. Pashitch;and when later the only daughter of King Peter marrieda member of the Russian Imperial family, it seemed thatnothing was going to prevent the conclusion of an offen-sive and defensive alliance between the Romanoffs andthe dynasty of Karageorgevitch. The Emperor William, however, was not altogetherso pleased as people were in Servia. He saw once morehis cherished plan
The near East from within . I 0) S o uu Alexander as Grown Prince i8i After the renunciation of Prince George mattersbecame at once easier for the partisans of Russia. PrinceAlexander submitted readily to the advice of M. Pashitch;and when later the only daughter of King Peter marrieda member of the Russian Imperial family, it seemed thatnothing was going to prevent the conclusion of an offen-sive and defensive alliance between the Romanoffs andthe dynasty of Karageorgevitch. The Emperor William, however, was not altogetherso pleased as people were in Servia. He saw once morehis cherished plan crumbling to the ground, and thepossibility of a strong Slav kingdom establishing itself,with the help and under the protection of Russia, inopposition to weak, tottering Turkey and in rivalry tothe new Bulgarian monarchy. It became necessary,therefore, to press certain events, the inner purport ofwhich I knew, and which, personally, I considered to beUnwise on broad lines of statesmanship. Yet, as ever,the German Emperor
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