Note 37 — TURKEY.
Reading edition · Edition 2
Thirty-six years have elapsed since these words were penned, and although Turkey has been upheld by the European Powers, and has herself made one or two brave efforts on the battlefield and in the matter of constitutional reform, the process of decay has been rapidly advancing; yet even so who, at the beginning of the year 1912, could have foreseen the catastrophe which in a few short weeks has almost wiped Turkey from the Map of Europe?