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Now that Austria has carried out the
injunction laid upon her by the Berlin Congress—for
the present to undertake the management and
administration of Bosnia and
Herzegovina—she ought to withdraw from these provinces,
whose population should be allowed to decide
their own fate by universal suffrage, whether
this would result in the union of Bosnia with
Servia, and of Herzegovina with Montenegro,
or whether the situation should be arranged in
some other way. All that Austria has any
ground for requiring is, the free navigation of
the Danube and the straits (Bosphorus and
Dardanelles), and therewith her true interests
in this region would be abundantly satisfied.
The Christian States which, alongside of
Turkey, have spread over the Balkan
peninsula, are Greece, Roumania, Servia,
Montenegro and Bulgaria. The last named still stands
in subjection to Turkey, but has the same right
to full independence as the neighbour States.
It is evidently their vocation to divide amongst
themselves the remains of Turkey in Europe,
for their population in an overwhelming
proportion consists of Southern Sclavs and
Greeks. But unhappily they seem to have
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