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Page 42 - Third, every territorial settlement involved in this war must be made in the interest and for the benefit of the populations concerned, and not as a part of any mere adjustment or compromise of claims amongst rival states...
Page 38 - That price is impartial justice in every item of the settlement, no matter whose interest is crossed; and not only impartial justice, but also the satisfaction of the several peoples whose fortunes are dealt with.
Page 42 - Fourth, that all well-defined national aspirations shall be accorded the utmost satisfaction that can be accorded them without introducing new or perpetuating old elements of discord and antagonism that would be likely in time to break the peace of Europe and consequently of the world.
Page 42 - Second, that peoples and provinces are not to be bartered about from sovereignty to sovereignty as if they were mere chattels and pawns in a game, even the great game now for ever discredited of the balance of power.
Page 253 - Turkey (Macedonia), and one to constitute the Principality of Bulgaria under the suzerainty of the Sultan; and it was England especially that insisted upon this, and also upon the right of Turkey to occupy and fortify the range of the Balkans all with the object of making it impossible for the Bulgarians to form a viable state, which might be friendly to Russia. The Englishmen who knew Bulgaria, all our friends, understood the folly and wickedness of this at the time.
Page 264 - ... statement as to the places where this work has been conducted, the people among whom it has been conducted, and the manner of conducting it, may be of value at this time when the fate of large portions of the Balkan Peninsula is about to be decided . "About the middle of last century the attention of American missionaries in Constantinople was attracted to the Bulgarian peasants in and about that city, and the impression made by them was so favourable that it was decided to investigate the region...
Page 253 - The treaty of Berlin, which was signed July 13, 1878, was one of the most important events of the nineteenth century in European history, but it was not made in the interest of any one in the Turkish Empire. I do not know that it professed to be, although Lord Beaconsfield congratulated himself on having "consolidated the Empire," an euphemism for having reduced the size of it.
Page 245 - Bulgarian national frontiers extended " from the Danube to the ^Egean, and from the Black Sea to the lower Morava and the Black Drin.
Page 264 - This investigation was made in the late fifties, and its result was that religious societies in Great Britain and the United States of America decided to inaugurate missionary work in the Balkan Peninsula, mainly among the Bulgarians. The Methodist Episcopal Church of North America, took as its field the region between the Danube and the Balkan Mountains, and began its work in. 1857; while the region south of the Balkans was assigned to the Missionary Society of the Congregational Churches of America,...
Page 265 - Velusa and Monospitovo. In 1894, after the opening up of the railway lines which converge upon Salonica, that city was made a new centre of work with supervision over the outlying districts, from Mitrovitsa on the northwest and Mehomia on the north, to Drama on the east. New preaching stations were established in Koleshnitsa, Doiran, Koukoush with its villages Todorak and Mezhdurek, Gurmen (Nevrokop district), Drama, Tetovo and Mitrovitsa. "Although it was originally the plan of the Mission to work...