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Sultan Abdul Hamid, called "Abdul the Damned" by phrasemaking historians, was crafty, cruel, ignorant,* yet at the beginning of the World War his personal estates included half the Province of Saloniki, holdings in the Island of Cyprus, Thessaly, Greece, Syria, Palestine and what is now the Kingdom of Irak, a goodly section of the rich tobacco lands of Macedonia (whence "Egyptian" cigarets) and about $25,000,000 in jewels. When he was deposed in 1909, all these were confiscated...
Observers saw in the election a blow to Italian influence in the Balkans, a restoration of French and English prestige. The Jugoslav press, delighted, prophesied peace in the Balkans, hoped for early ratification of the treaty which gives Jugoslavia a free harbor at Saloniki...
...that M. Liaptcheff, although not a Militarist, took an active part in the prosecution of the so-called "First Balkan War" (1912-1913), and signed the Treaty of London, which ended that struggle and freed Bulgaria from Turkey. He was also one of the signers of the Armistice at Saloniki in 1918, and has twice served as Minister of Finance, once in the War Cabinet of M. Radoslavov...
...France is copying Germany's imperial policy, not only in her efforts to monopolize trade control, but in her schemes in Saloniki and Greece...
...Diplomacy in the Balkans." It also includes eight lectues: 1. The Near East before the Great War. 2. The Near East in the Great War. 3. The Danube to the Egean and the Adriatic to the Bosphorus. 4. The Baghdad Railway in the War. 5. The Dardanelles. 6. Saloniki. 7. Constantinople. 8. Mesopotamia. The Future of the Balkans. This last series will be held on Wednesdays and Saturdays at five o'clock in the afternoon, beginning Wednesday, December 5, and omitting Christmas week...