The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1896-12-22
Weimar, Dec. 4, 1896.

nent.
Weimar, Dec. 4, 1896.
TO the Editor of the JOURNAL AND COURIER
Like the old Calvinist who was will
ling to be damned for the glory of God,
Lord Rosebery has provoked denuncia-
ton and accepted retirement for the
sake of his convictions concerning
Britain, Europe and Turkey His
speech in Edinburg was one of the
ablest and most statesmanlike British
utterances on foreign affairs / have
read. Here is its gist in a sentence:
ST do not say that am unwilling to
draw the sword in a. great and necessa-
lister incurred the risk of war. I do
not Believe that any British minister,
with reference to the vast interests
consigned to his charge, can avoid the
risk of war. But l say that any Brit
ish minister who engages in Euro
pean war, except under interests di-
rectly and distinctively British, is a
criminal to his country and position"
1t is held in certain quarters entitled to
respect, that British solitary interview
tion would not be accompanied by the
danger of war. In reply Lord Rose
berry said: 81 am convinced, as far as
any information and my knowledge go
and up to recently 1 think that
knowledge and information were
sound, although the situation may
have changed for the better that
there was a fixed and resolute agree
ment on the part of the great powers
of Europe-of all of them or nearly all
of thenl-to resist by force any single
handed Intervention by England in the
affairs of the east" And at Colchester
The added, upon the point of this risk
my conviction is strong and my infor-
NATION is good When man of Lord
Roseberys character, experience and
sources of information speaks thus it
ds enough. Mr. Henry Norman, man
thoroughly au fait with the affairs of
this part of the world, goes on to say:
Il agree with Freeman and Prince
Nicholas of Montenegro, that when ma
tions sin, nations are punished5 and
the blood of the slaughtered Afmeni-
ans lies nearest to our own door. But
at the same time it is necessary to rec
ognize the uglest facts, and to declare
caIlously that all the Armenians in ex-
istence are not worth the risk to the
freedom of mankind Of England being
reduced to the level of a second-rate
power For this was the risk we
should have run if, single-handed, we
had launched our battle-ships and
found too late that the universal jeal-
ousy of us had crystallized into an ac-
tive league of united opposition. It is
difficult, however, to see that anybody,
except, perhaps, Mr. Gladstone, really
desired solitary action by England
We have been laughed at loudly by the
Europeans at our jingoistic taradiddles
concerning 'the Bancroft's" forcing
the Dardanelles. Though our home
papers TEEN with articles on the suffer-
ing Armenia and what shall 1--WE" do
about it, the papers of Europe have ig-
nored the matter and only the Paris
Herald has occasionally published
notes concerning UNITED States inter
vention,' but to me this only seems
means for space-filling, as the Paris
Herald does little but give us the
movements of the British aristocracy
and the state of the temperature at
Menan, Nice, etc, and even places the
navy of England over ours; reading
Her Majesty's navy" and then comes
the Omitted States navy" I hear that
the entire staff is composed of Eng
lishmen, and even at the last Christ
mas dinner of the paris Herald" the
health of the Queen was first proposed.
and then our President. The above L
am not able to voueh for, but 1 should
not doubt but il was so. But 10 go
back, to revenous a nos. Armenians
The journal which has been mainly in
strumental in arOusing public feeling
in England has categorically declared
that the agitation had no such object,
but desired only to exhibit to Europe
The intensity Of the moral indignation
of Great Britain; to make clear to the
powers that Lord Salisbury had his
whole nation. irrespective of party, be
hind him in any strong step he might
choose to take; and to convince Russia
that England was prepared to make