Identifier: travelspolitic00mill (find matches)
Title: Travels and politics in the Near East
Year: 1898 (1890s)
Authors: Miller, William, 1864-1945
Subjects: Eastern question (Balkan) Balkan Peninsula
Publisher: New York : Frederick A. Stokes
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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y of King Alexanders abdica-tion, coupled with the improbability of that sovereignsmarriage in the near future, have opened up vistas ofaggrandisement in that direction also. For PrinceNicholas, whose eldest daughter, now dead, marriedPrince Peter Karageorgevic, the pretender to the Servianthrone, considers himself as one of the two chiefs of theSerb people. With King )\Iilan of Servia he was neveron good terms, and his feelings were reciprocated by thatmonarch. King Alexander he has visited at Belgrade andreceived at Cetinje, and the resumption of good relationsbetween the rulers of the two Serb States led Prince PeterKarageorgevic to find that the Lake of Geneva affordedbetter scope for amateur photography than his father-in-laws capital, where I saw him some years ago. Thesolidarity of the Serb race is a favourite subject in after-dinner speeches, and in the homely Montenegrin innsyou may see rough pictures of the old Servian tsarsand the crowning of Stephen Dusan. But it may be 47
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Travels and Politics in the Near East doubted whether the Belgrade pohticians would care,in any event—even that of the Obrenovic dynastyscollapse—to take their orders from Prince Nicholas,while it is quite certain that he could not govern theBelgrade politicians and his own mountaineers on thesame system. With Prince Ferdinand of Bulgaria hehas exchanged enthusiastic telegrams, and the meetingsof the two at Abbazia and Cetinje this year have beeninterpreted as an attempt to form an alliance of the threeSlav States of the Balkans against Austria-Hungary. Onthe Turkish-side, in Albania and old Servia, his hopes ofexpansion are brighter, because it is a maxim of diplo-macy that, whenever there is a war in the East, the Turkshall provide the spoils for the combatants or the umpires.Besides, Prince Nicholas has managed the industriousAlbanian subjects, whom he received twenty years ago,extremely well, and has accordingly shown his capacityfor further acquisitions in that direction. He

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