German
policy has overthrown all their influence, destroyed all their approach
works, released Europe's vassal from all his promises and obligations.
The Sick Man, cured by a quack who holds his health in pawn, has bound
himself body and soul to his healer.
Greece, frequently hesitating in her policy between British and French
sympathies, has nothing to hope for in the future from Turkophil
Germany. William II will make her recovery a matter of limitations and
bargaining. And who knows but that the strange proceedings of Prince
Constantine and of the royal princes, his brothers, may not be
explained by secret promises for the future--promises made by the
German Emperor in return for blind submission to his will?
William II holds Turkey in the hollow of his hand. Byzantium and Rome
are vassals of a German monarch. If Rome is threatened with ruin by
her alliance with the King of Prussia, Byzantium is restored by a new
Caraculla. William II is, therefore, twice entitled to wear the sphere
with the Imperial crown atop, as the emblem of his sovereign power and
as the imitator of the Roman Emperor. And notwithstanding the
Anti-Christ protection which he extends to the infidel, he can also
affix the Cross to his sphere. Is he not about to take possession, in
theatrical fashion, of the Holy Places?
Turkey has been restored by the Kaiser of Berlin. He is her Emperor,
her Khalif, Master of the Holy Places, for the reason that his most
humble servant is Emperor, Khalif and Master of the Holy Places.
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