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Title: Descriptive portraiture of Europe in storm and calm
Year: 1885 (1880s)
Authors: King, Edward, 1848-1896
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Publisher: Springfield, Mass., C.A. Nichols & company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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ano, and Christian races in Turkey, explained theeven appealed to the English government antagonism of the Greeks and the Slavs,to he allowed representation at the and the limits of Bulgaria ; BeaconsfieldBerlin Congress. At last this Congress unfolded his policy of checkmatingmet in the capital l which the political Russia; the Austrian designs on Bosniapower had been transferred from Paris and Herzegovina were set forth; theas the result of the great German mili- independence of Servia was confirmed;tarv victories. The French haughtily the Russian confjuesls in Asia were con-held aloof, chagrined and annoyed at the sidered, and the treaty of San Stefanomanifestation of their secular enemys thoroughly overhauled. The dexterouspower in Europe. Lord Beaconsfield hand of Prince Bismarck was more thanarrived in Berlin early in June of 1878, once interposed with marked advantageand was received with great honors, to the harmonious working of the con- EUROPE /.V STORM AND CALM. 787
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788 EUROPE IX STORM AND CALM. ference. The alterations in European shores of the ^gean. On the otherTurkey effected by the treaty, which whs hand it gave Austria permission tothe outcome of the Berlin Congress, were occupy Bosnia, and gave her commandnot so great as those intended by the over Montenegro, thus affording a newtreaty of San Stefano, but were enormous, protection against the Turk to the heroicand had for their substantial result the little country. In short, by the Berlinbanishment of the Turk, who had grown Congress England had made asubstantialtired of the lands he so longmisgoverned. To-day hehas but a slender footholdin Constantinople, and ismenaced even in his pos-session of this historiccapital. Lord Beacons-field and his followersclaimed that the treaty ofBerlin placed tin Turkishempire in a position of in-dependence : hut this isaltogether too much toclaim for it. It did indeedprotect what little was leftof the Turkish Empire inEurope, but that was solittle as to

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