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nation, determined to defend what it feet. Every traditional theory of policy 



considers to be its vital national in- has gone by the board, and the officials 



terests, is not one which can be intimi- of the Ballplatz are still gasping for 



dated or coerced, and it would be well breath. Having no policy, they revert 



if Europe were to reahse this. to abuse, to hectoring, and to blas- 



The seven weeks' war, pheming, in the hope that they may 



The Future in which the armies of gain time to think and decide upon some 



of Turkey. the Balkan League have startling counterstroke by which to 



solved once and for all regain their old position. Intrigues to 



the question of the partition of Turkey, prevent the war ending, false reports to 



has so obsessed the public imagination discredit Servia, endeavours to embroil 



as to leave the impression that there Europe — all these have been tried in 



exists no more Turkey. This, how- turn, and will still be tried. The sense 



ever, is very far from being the case, of inability to do anything drives the 



since the European portion of the Austrians to the verge of madness, and 



Turkish Empire has ahvays been one were it not that even they cannot close 



of the smallest of her provinces. Added their eyes to the certainty of disaster 



to this, it has always been the most were they to go to war, the order to 



costly and the most dangerous. Turkey, march would have been given ere this, 



resigned to her defeat in Europe, may The disappearance of Turkey does not 



well fulfil her real destiny in Asia matter so much ; it is the rise of Servia. 



Minor. In the past her national forces At all costs this must be stopped, and 



have been overtaxed to maintain the so the Albanians are taken to the 



European provinces and to suppress Austrian hearts, economic privileges are 



continual risings fomented in them from claimed, and any lie is used to vilify 



outside. The national Ottoman strength the kingdom of King Peter. As a 



in Anatolia has always had to make leading authority in Vienna said, " It 



sacrifices for Turkey's European pos- is the whole Servian question, not only 



sessions, and has thus become ex- a question of an Adriatic port, that is 



hausted. By getting rid of Macedonia, vital for Austria-Hungary ; it is neces- 



Turkey will be rather strengthened sary that this question should be settled 



than weakened, and anyone who is if Austria does not wish to perish." A 



acquainted with Anatolia and its Great Servia, holding forth the ad\^an- 



Asiatic hinterland will agree that tages of free and democratic govern- 



Turkey has by no means been destroyed, ment, means natural unrest amongst 



It must be confessed the Serbs, whose lot in Austria-Hungary 



The Panic Policy that it would bc hard has never been a happy one. It is the 



of Austria. ^o imagine a more difft- evil conscience of a Government which 



cult position- than that has denied liberty to its subjects which 



occupied by those who have to decide produces to-day panic at Vienna. Count 



the policy of Austria at this moment. Berchtoldt defined x\ustro-Hungarian 



They do not know what to do ; it is as policy as a policy of consistent modera- 



if the skies had fallen upon them and tion, aiming at no territorial expansion, 



the earth sunk away from beneath their but keeping positive interests firmly in 



