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(1892) Author: Klas Pontus Arnoldson With: Brooke Foss Westcott
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and interests of the inhabitants; (5) that they
themselves do not invade the domains of other
States, and that they recognise all the maxims
of international justice.

A European congress, co-operating in such
an arrangement of the conditions of the Balkan
peninsula, would contribute in no small degree
to remove the causes of war in Europe, and
would do effective work in the cause of
freedom and civilization. Greece would acquire all
the islands of the Archipelago, together with
Candia and Cyprus. Macedonia would,
according to the conditions of its nationalities, be
divided between Greece and Bulgaria. The
natural boundary of the latter would be the
Danube on the one side and the Archipelago
on the other. Constantinople would remain
the capital of a Bulgarian kingdom, or of a
Southern Sclav federation; or again, a free
city with a small independent territory.[1] The


[1] According to the proposal of an old diplomatist, the
Sultan should be given a similar position in Constantinople
to that of the Pope, now, in Rome. Thereby the Sultan
would become innocuous to Europe, but continue to be the
“Ruler of the Faithful” to Asia. (“La question d’Orient
devant l’Europe democratique.” Paris: E. Dentu, libraire,
1886).

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