Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-10-18
REVISION OF THE BERLIN TREATY.

Turkish rule in these provinces was de-
creed. turkey never performed these OBJ
ligations.)
Eleventh holy places in the orient were
contided. by article G. TO the protectorate
of France.
Count Charles de Mouy has contributed
an article to the Revue de DeuX Mondes
under the title of Souvenirs dun Diplo-
mat, which is all the more interesting
inasmuch as NJ. de Mouy was the first
secretary of the French embassy at Ber-
lin and as such was designated by the
president of the congress reporter OF
the acts of the congress.
NJ. de Mouy says that the object OF the
congress was circumScribed episode, but
1t became act of the greatest impor-
lance, the most important in the diplo-
matte annals of the close of the nine
teenth century. and which indirectly and
during a long time left its impress upon
European affairs
The manifestation at Berlin was the re-
suit of general situation. After a period
or twenty years, marked by three great
wars. 1859, 1866 1870 and finally that of
1S17-1S1S, International relations were
sensibly altered-ohscured by so many vio-
lent shocks that after all these material
and moral accidents Europe had come to
turn in the road where the danger was
felt by all.
The entente OF the three emperors the
morning after the Franco German war
was only an expedient. merely a modus
vivendi. The congress at Berlin led to
the removal of the European concert. If
1t had been a question only of revising
the prelimnaries of San Stefano simple
conference would have sufficed. The ques-
ton may be asked If Europe may not
again have reached another turn in the
road. as in 1878. and hence the congress
which again appears imminent TO settle
the near-eastern question which at this
moment is the subject of discussion be-
tween Sir Edward Grey, the British for
eign secretary, and NJ. Iswosky. the Rus
sian minister of foreign affairs?
The Transformation of Italy since 1859
and of Germany since 1866 and again in
1871, are events which
Trans-Balkan have contributed to this
oh;o.+. congress far more per-
haps than the treaty Of
San Stefano. There is some object. some
ambition beyond and outside Of the Bal
kans. which 1T is necessary to formulate
in a congress that it may receive consid-
GRAFTON. or that it may be disapproved
The peril at present is not that war will
occur. but that in the "compensations"
which the powers are discussing there
will be some act of injustice committed
which will render another and perhaps yet
y
fault or faults enacted against the weak
and defenseless.
Austria-Hungary declares that there is
nothing new in the situation created in
Bosnia-HerZegovina. and for corrobora-
ton points to article of the treaty Of
Berlin. Under the conditions existing in
1873 England favored the Austro-Hun-
garian occupation as a check upon the
eanslavic pretension at St. Petersburg.
Austria favored it because of an increase
in territory and a development of her ORR
entail ambitions Germany favored ii be-
cause 1t gave her an opportunity to rem
der a signal service to a future ally at
the same time that she was pushing her
in way she desired her to go. England.
it should be added. with that art which
is her speciality. made haste to arrange
with her protege for a comp ensation"
England decided the sultan to cede to her
by a special agreement the Island of Cy-
prus.
The foreign office at London neverthe-
less in 1873 maintained, in apparent UNI
consciousness Of its act. the dogma of the
integrity OF the Ottoman empire.
The 18th Of June. 1878, the date of the
opening of the congress. the Palace Rad
twill was packed with a dense throng OF
Berliners.