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The Balkans and Europe

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02 November 2012

November 1st, 1912

AT THE moment of writing we find ourselves again in the dark as regards what is happening in the theatre of war in the Balkans. But for some days previously the curtain had been lifted, and to the astonished gaze of the world there was revealed an amazing spectacle of victories won by the dash and daring of the soldiery of the Allies, and of the repulse and flight of the Turks before foes whose military skill and enterprise they had apparently under-estimated. So far as can be conjectured, the Turks are now making a firm stand, and if they have been compelled to regard this as their last chance, we may expect to hear that, in the battle now being fiercely waged, they have fought with that desperate courage which comes to men who find themselves in the last extremity. Whatever may be the issue of the war, the doctrine of the status quo can no longer be upheld. It is unthinkable that, if the Ottoman forces finally prevail, the Balkan States should be allowed to relapse into their former subjection to Ottoman ascendency. But when the moment arrives for dealing with the new problems that must arise, who can tell what quarrels may not be excited among the Great Powers, with fearful consequences for the peace of Europe?

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