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 GREECE BEFORE THE WAR OF 1 897. I97 lish an armistice and de facto peace between the contending parties, provided peaceable means suffice to carry this purpose. 2. It will give birth to a Greek state and promise its indepen- dence. 3. It will have traced out for this state boundaries, weak from a military, poor from a financial point of view. 4. It will have found a sovereign for the new state. " The obstinacy with which freedom was refused to Crete appeared to him especially unjustifiable. " As I see every- where," he wrote in the same letter, "that it is English policy to separate Candia from Greece, I am afraid that the hidden interest which caused this separation to be determined on will augur no good to the new state. The exclusion of Candia will cripple the new state, morally and physi- cally, will make it weak and poor, expose it to constant danger from Turkey, and create from the beginning innumerable difficulties for him who is to be at the head of the government." The subsequent history of Crete and of Greece has amply justified his sorrowful foresight. This combination of interestedness and insin- cerity upon the part of England and the other powers of Europe is all the more repulsive when we examine the history of the Turks and the motives why they are protected and succored by