Friday, October 26, 2012

League To Defy Powers?

New York Times 100 years ago today, October 26, 1912:
London Weekly Outlook Declares Balkan States Have a Deep Purpose.
 By Marconi Transatlantic Wireless Telegraph to The New York Times.
    LONDON, Oct. 25.— The Weekly Outlook asserts that it has received special information that the alliance of the Balkan Kings is far more than a military combination for the immediate object in view. The journal says:
    "It is a permanent federation, intended to exclude all external authority from the Balkan Peninsula. The Presidency will be exercised by the King of the Hellenes on nomination of the King of Montenegro.
    "To end the religious rivalries of Balkan Christians all the orthodox churches of Greece, Bulgaria, Servia, and Montenegro will be united, as in ancient times, under the ecumenical patriarch of Constantinople, who is the head of the Greek Church, but every national church will retain its national ritual and language instead of being confined to the Greek as of old.
    "The extension of Servia to the Adriatic forms part of the Federal scheme which will be resisted by Austria as worse even than the occupation of Novi-Bazar."

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