The Development of the European Nations, 1870-1914 (5th ed.)

by J. Holland Rose

[117] Parl. Papers, Turkey, No. 9 (1877), p. 2.

[118] Parl. Papers, Turkey, No. 15 (1877), pp. 354-355.

[119] Bismarck: his Reflections and Reminiscences, vol. ii. p. 259 (Eng. ed.).

[120] Élie de Cyon, op. cit. chap. i.; also in Nouvelle Revue for 1880.

[121] Bismarck, Recollections and Reminiscences, vol. ii. p. 231 (Eng. ed.).

[122] Busch, Our Chancellor, vol. ii. p. 126.

[123] Turkey in Europe, by Odysseus, p. 139.

[124] See, too, the official report of our pro-Turkish Ambassador at Constantinople, Mr. Layard (May 30, 1877), as to the difficulty of our keeping out of the war in its final stages (Parl. Papers, Turkey, No. 26 (1877), p. 52).

[125] Sir William White: Life and Correspondence, pp. 115-117.

[126] For the power of tradition in the Foreign Office, see Sir William White: Life and Correspondence, p. 119.