The Progress of the World. 



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might have deplored the disappearance Minister. Nations may be sacrificed 



of Turkey from Europe. As it is, when in order to enable an ambassador to 



tried, the Turks, even though blessed utter a new and striking diplomatic 



with a Constitution, have been found phrase. Such a one was " territorial 



unworthy and inefficient. For such and moral status quo,'" which effectually 



modern conditions we have no pity, and obscured the real state of the question. 



Death-Knell 



of 

 Diplomacy. 



m view of such 

 proof the w^orld 

 must rejoice in the 

 replacing of Turk- 

 ish domination by 

 that of nations 

 virile, positive, and 

 actuated by sin- 

 cere ideals. 



The 

 coming 

 of this 

 war has 

 proved conclusive- 

 ly how barren of 

 results are the 

 efforts of ambassa- 

 dors, how ineffec- 

 tual is diplomacy. 

 The time has 

 passed when am- 

 bassadors — those 

 " magnificent ex- 

 iles ceremoniously 

 sustaining, eight 

 hours' or a dozen 

 hours' journey 

 from Downing 

 Street, the diplo- 



M 



You are requested to assist 

 funeral service and burial of 



at the 



Monsieur STATUS QUO 



DIPLOMATIST 



who died the 30th October 1912, in Mace- 

 donia, at the age of 459 years ; 



The Ceremony will take place in a few 

 days in the Christian Church of Saint 

 Sophia, at Constantinople. 



The cortege will assemble at the 

 cemetery. 



Friends will please take this as the sole 

 notification from the relations : 



Turkey, his widow, 



Austria, his mother ; 



England, his mother-in-law ; 



Bulgaria, Servia and Greece, his 

 daughters ; 



Montenegro, his grandson ; 



Russia, his sister-in-law ; 



Germany, France and Italy, etc., 

 his cousins and second cousins. 



The interment will take place in 

 Asia Minor. 



Of quite another 

 nature is the 

 brutal retort of the 

 Turkish Minister 

 of Foreign Affairs 

 to the Bulgarian 

 Minister who 

 asked him about 

 Turkey's promised 

 reforms before the 

 war. " We are 

 mobilising 100,000 

 men," was the 

 Turkish reply. In 

 the face of this 

 attitude, conscious 

 of the impotence 

 "of the Great 

 Powers, looking in 

 vain to Great Bri- 

 tain, what could 

 the Balkan League 

 do ? The chance 

 for the Great 

 Powers to prove 

 that they had a 

 right to be so 

 called, the possi- 

 bilitv of the 



matic fiction that they are representing diplomats to reassert themselves was 

 the nation in a remotely foreign in preventing the war. Now it is too 



land " — have any 

 tence save that 



real right of exis- 

 of maintaining a 

 number of well-paid posts for Govern- 

 ment protiges. They can neither fore- 

 see wat nor avert it, while they are 

 quite useless when tied by the tele- 

 graph wires to an ignorant Foreign 



late. Not only has the great crisis 

 found Europe without a great states- 

 man, it has also found it without any 

 Great Powers. 



There has been so much 

 loose talk about the 

 war being a religious 



The Objects of 

 the War. 



