Word: balkans
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...There is no danger of America's becoming involved in the Balkan troubles as Turkey in Europe is now so small as to occasion no disputes. All the European nations, the Great Powers included, are in favor of an American mandate and would take it themselves were they not already exhausted. Bulgaria, who in the past has been Turkey's strongest enemy, is particularly friendly to the United States as is evidenced by her refusal to declare war on us at the time of our entry, despite Germany's continued protests that she should...
Professor Ferguson of the Department of History specializes in the conditions of southern and Eastern Europe. His general subject will be "International Politics" with special reference to the Balkan problems...
Other members of the Vienna party are Professor R. J. Kener of Missouri, who has made a special study of Bohemian affairs; C. M. Storey '12, of the Department of Justice, Lieut. Col. Sherman Miles, former attache in the Balkan States; Major Lawrence Martin '06, Captain Nicholas Roosevelt '14, and Lieut. R. C. Foster '11. When Professor Coolidge left this country, F. E. Parker, Jr., '18, accompanied him in the capacity of secretary...
...that these local states once established will not be governed by their peaceful and illiterate peasantry, but by scheming leaders and princes who are more likely to plunge Europe again into war than to keep it at peace. The interspersion of the racial elements in Russia, Austria and the Balkans makes their separation impossible. Bulgars and Serbs, Magyars and Ukrainians do not inhabit separate provinces, but separate villages or farms. Their division would be almost as difficult as to divide the South politically between the white and colored races, or Wisconsin between the descendents of Germans and those of Englishmen...
...times like these, our nation must only be strengthened in its purpose. There can never be such a Germany when peace is finally attained. The Balkan question must meet a solution now that will last for all time. The basis must be the right of all people to decide their own fate. We can only hold grimly on and fight in our faith in right until the day is at last won, until races shall be divided into nations which are natural and which will forever maintain the mutual understanding of the whole world...