MAZZINI ON THE BALKAN CRISIS
"A prediction of the development of the Eastern question -Which it is interesting to recall is that of Mazzini, who wrote thus, in Roma <M Popolo in 1871, says the YVestminoter Gazette :-— " 'The Slav peoples will prevail over Turkey. Tho Turkish Empire is destined to break up before the Austrian, but the fall of the one will be the signal of the early coll,ap«c of the other. Tho Austrian Empire is ail administration, not a State, but the Turkish Empire in Europe is merely a- toreign encampment in other peoples territory. . . . For more than a century the conquering race, sterilised by its Mussulman famttieisrn, and stifled by the surrounding Chn&tian. populations-, lias given the world no now tdea, no .new work of art, no new industrial invention or discovery.' "Maa/ini thought that 'to organise and arrange that agreement le the miheion of Italy. 1 "'
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Evening Post, Volume LXXXV, Issue 27, 1 February 1913, Page 10
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149MAZZINI ON THE BALKAN CRISIS Evening Post, Volume LXXXV, Issue 27, 1 February 1913, Page 10
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