CLEAN FINGERS.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXV, Issue 12, 13 January 1913, Page 4

CLEAN FINGERS.

it is to ns all-important that, what-

ever solution the Powers may recommend, it should be based on right, and not on might,” says the ‘Pall Mall.’ “The right is the right of Serb and Greek and Bulgur to those national consolidations which they ardently de-| sire, which are not less legitimatoj than was the desire of the Italians for' unity, and which they have purchased; with their blood. Europe will baulk these aspirations at a deadly peril to itself, at the price of perpetrating and intensifying those mutual suspicions among the Powers which arise from the pursuit of a cynical and selfish policy. Whatever part is taken by the Concert of tiie Powers must be free from hidden motives of ambition; must command the ready assent of those who have made such stupendous sacrifices for their cause; and must he taken with a single eye to securing the future freedom, peace, and good government of the Balkan peoples, in accordance with their own wishes. In a word, if the Powers are to put their fingers in the Balkan pie, their fingers must be clean.”