EDITORIAL
The Congress of Berlin
mination to his magnificent and spec-
tacular career that he should be present
as a commanding, aye dominating figure
“dictating terms of peace to Europe.”
There was the deeply learned and som-
ber Salisbury, just rising to the heyday
of his power, and soon to become the
greatest statesman of his day in Eng-
land. There was the astute German
empire-builder, Bismarck the Iron Chan-
cellor, to whose policies and power.
modern Germany owes her present great-
ness. There was Count Julius Andrassy,
the Austro-Hungarian statesrnan, who
had suffered exile from his native land
in the cause of better government, but
who had now returned and become Min-
ister of Foreign Affairs for Austria.
There was Haymerle, the Austrian who
had spent his entire life in the diplomatic
service of his country. But enough rela-
tive to the men; now to their work.
The Congress of Berlin had to deal
with four or five distinct phases of the
Eastern Question.
I. The condition of the provinces or
States nominally under the suzerainty of
Turkey.
2. The populations of alien race and
creed beneath the Turkish flag.
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Prince Bismarck