Author : Henry A. Munro-Butler-Johnstone
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781333778323
Total Pages : 58 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (783 download)
Book Synopsis The Eastern Question (Classic Reprint) by : Henry A. Munro-Butler-Johnstone
Download or read book The Eastern Question (Classic Reprint) written by Henry A. Munro-Butler-Johnstone and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2016-09-28 with total page 58 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Eastern Question There is on this subject a circular memorandum of Lord Palmerston's, dated January, 1848, and addressed by him as Foreign Secretary to the representatives of her Majesty abroad, in which he clearly lays down that it is entirely a matter of discretion whether the British Government should interfere authoritatively to protect the British holders of foreign bonds in the case of repudiating States, and that its right so to interfere was, so far as international law was concerned, indisputable; and exactly the same doc trine was laid down by statesmen on both sides of the House, Lord Palmerston included, in a debate in the House of Commons in June, 1847, on a motion by Lord George Bentinck. If, then, we have a clear and indisputable right to interfere authoritatively in the event of a financial collapse occurring, it is surely not too much to argue that our right to friendly remonstrance, to prevent such a collapse when it seems imminent, is equally indisputable; and with a normal deficit of something like in the annual Budget, is or is not a financial collapse im minent? But I do not rest our right to interfere either on the general or the special plea. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.