Word: sultanate
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Professor Lyon, while on leave of absence abroad, hopes to obtain permission from the Sultan of Turkey, through Hamdi Bey, the curator of the Imperial Museum at Constantinople, for Harvard excavations in Palestine. During the next few months he will probably send boxes of casts of Babylonian and Assyrian objects and any original material, such as clay tablets, which...
...which post he served until April, '90. While secretary he was really in charge of the legation for a third of the period. He was twice sent on special missions to Morocco, his second visit involving a ride of 250 miles into the interior and an interview with the Sultan. On retiring from the legation in Madrid he remained in Europe for more than two years...
...present situation is extremely difficult and complicated. The sudden turn of affairs in Crete has weakened the triple alliance of Germany, Austria and Italy, and the double alliance of France and Germany. Austria is frankly hostile to Crete, and the German emperor shows considerable zeal for the Sultan. Italy would naturally follow the lead but for the great popular sympathy for Greece. Public opinion in England is also for Greece, but thus far the English government has shown itself contemptuous of it. The policy of France is friendly. Russia is the most important power of all, and her policy...
...Gulesian, the native Armenian lecturer, delivered a highly interesting address in Holden Chapel last evening on the recent massacres in his country. Mr. Gulesian described the terrible sufferings of his countrymen under the rule of the Sultan, and deplored very strongly the inaction of the Christian nations, England in particular...
...Lebanon and Syrian massacres of 1860 (Duke of Argyll, 38-42).- (2) The Berlin Decree of 1878, was followed by greater excesses, and the Kurd Massacre of 1882 (Laveleye, 323; Encyl. Britt. I, 312).- (C) No efforts of the Powers give hope of remedy.- (1) The Sultan has not and will not keep a promise (Identic Note of 1880).- (2) Mohammedan Rule is incompatible with civilization and humanity (Lord Clarendon).- (3) Complex reforms on paper a delusion (Argyll, 165).- (4) Military occupation the only remedy (Salisbury. Boston Herald...