Count G-oluchowski emphasised this last caution by pointing to the
condition of affairs in the Balkans, "where their policy stood in direct opposition to a number of interested elements which sought to fish in troubled waters." There was a " per- manent agitation" there which might have to be met by the "combined strength" of both the Empires, and things even now wore an unpleasant aspect, to which the attention of Turkey had been urgently called. That Power had a right to use its troops for the repression of anarchy, but it had been warned that "cruelty and indiscriminate violence could only make things worse," and that the malad- ministration must be improved. The other States were invited to take example from Roumania, which had risen to a high position through the quiet efforts of its Sovereign and his meritorious advisers. Nothing upon this branch of the subject could be more frank or more weighty than the Austrian Chancellor's speech, which raises once more the impression that his excessively imprudent outburst of a few years ago against America was really, as his friends now urge, an accident, the result of economic and prejudiced pressure which he did not thoroughly understand.
