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A NEW CABINET
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Turkey, the Talaats, the Djavids and others who now
ruled the Ottoman Empire uncontrolled, were allowing
themselves to be more and more allured by the advances
made to them by German policy through the medium
of the "great and glorious Enver," the promoter of the
Revolution, who was a military agent in Berlin, and
who lived there surrounded by Imperial care and
flattery.
Towards the spring of 1911 the cycle of Turkish
evolution was complete, and a practically quo ante
political situation existed, except that instead of a
Europe ostensibly united, the East had to deal with a
Europe frankly divided into two camps and arming
herself with feverish haste.
Malinov’s Radical Cabinet had had its day; it had
profited by the crisis of 1908 to secure the complete
independence of the country, and to take over the section
of the Ottoman railways which still existed in Rumelia;
it had maintained intimate relations with the Bulgarian
revolutionaries in Macedonia before as well as after the
short-lived period of reconciliation and fraternisation
with the Turks; it had succeeded in securing the
protection of the Russian representatives and had not
made unfair use of it. But times had changed, causing
a new situation to arise. For Bulgaria the key to this
situation lay in Russian protection and good-will. The
Bulgarian Radicals were on good terms with our
diplomacy and on excellent ones with our Liberal Party,
but Russian diplomacy was suspected of " Moderantism "
and our Liberal Party was far less enthusiastic about
enterprises in the Near East than were the
Nationalists who gathered round the Novoye Vremja, the
Octo-brists of the Duma, etc. ... It was these groups who
had to be conciliated; moreover, they had
correspondents in Bulgaria and special proteges amongst the
old Bulgarian Nationalists, commencing by the pure
Russophiles with M. Danev at their head as the
recognised successor of the old Dragan Tzankov. It was
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