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

CHAPTER IX
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19) that the Russians would not occupy the lines of Bulair close to Constantinople, or the Peninsula of Gallipoli commanding the Dardanelles, provided that British forces were not landed in that important strait[160].

So matters rested, both sides regarding each other with the sullenness of impotent wrath.
As Bismarck said, a war would have been a fight between an elephant and a whale.
[Footnote 160: Hertslet, iv.p.

2670.] The situation was further complicated by an invasion of Thessaly by the Greeks (Feb.

3); but they were withdrawn at once on the urgent remonstrance of the Powers, coupled with a promise that the claims of Greece would be favourably considered at the general peace[161].
[Footnote 161: L.Sergeant, _Greece in the Nineteenth Century_ (1897), ch.

xi.] In truth, all the racial hatreds, aspirations, and ambitions that had so long been pent up in the south-east of Europe now seemed on the point of bursting forth and overwhelming civilisation in a common ruin.


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