Studies in the Social Sciences, Vydání 17

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The University, 1925
 

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Strana 100 - We don't want to fight, but by jingo if we do, We've got the ships, we've got the men, we've got the money too.
Strana 60 - It is too late to stand on the dignity and independence of the Sultan ; a Sovereign who can neither keep the peace at home, nor pay his debts, must expect to submit to some disagreeable consequences.
Strana 123 - Govt. collapses would be the peaceful division of influence in the Balkan peninsula between Austria and Russia, the former to extend to the Aegean, the latter to the Straits, — and Germany — that is, himself, — to mediate between them. The intervention of England as the Leader of a concert of Powers, stands in the way of his wishes and of the plans he has made for his neighbours, whom he looks upon as the Sultan's natural heirs. England's interests are in Egypt and Asia as those of France are...
Strana 76 - take him in hand ". He considered that Salisbury had "unnecessarily bullied the Turks", and feared that he was "much duped by Ignatyev". "Salisbury seems most prejudiced", he wrote to Derby, "and not to be aware that his principal object in being sent to Constantinople is to keep the Russians out of Turkey, not to create an ideal existence for Turkish Christians.
Strana 41 - Slavonic communities — were taught to turn their eyes to Austria, which was a thoroughly friendly power, and to look to her for sympathy and support in obtaining redress of their grievances instead of to Russia...
Strana 60 - ... that the interests which the Imperial Powers have in this question no doubt are more direct than those of Great Britain, but, though more direct, they are not more considerable ; and those to whom the conduct of your affairs is now entrusted are deeply conscious of the nature and the magnitude of those British interests, and those British interests they are resolved to guard and maintain.
Strana 70 - to dictate to the Porte", Disraeli did not believe in the success of this policy. " I cannot help doubting," he wrote to Derby, "whether any arrangement. . .is now practicable. I fear affairs will linger on till the spring, when Russia and Austria will march their armies into the Balkans, either simultaneously and with a certain understanding, or one following the other's example from jealousy and fear.
Strana 136 - Russia having given me my crown, I am ready to give it back into the hands of its Sovereign. To this the Czar sent the following telegraphic reply, and allowed it to appear at once in the official paper at St. Petersburg: — I have received Your Highness's telegram. I cannot approve your return to Bulgaria, as I foresee the sinister consequences that it may bring on...
Strana 76 - that her Majesty's Government have decided that England will not assent to, or assist in, coercive measures, military or naval, against the Porte.

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