Identifier: rulersofmediterr00rich (find matches)
Title: The rulers of the Mediterranean
Year: 1894 (1890s)
Authors: Richard Harding Davis
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Publisher: Harper
Contributing Library: Gumberg Library, Duquesne University
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Klea. But it is the paradoxical nature of Egyptspresent situation which gives it its chief interest,and lends to it the peculiar fascination of a puz-zle, or one of Whistlers witticisms. For, whileEgypt is not free, as is Morocco, nor under aprotectorate, as is Tunis, she is still free and stillprotected. She is free to coin money, to main-tain an army, and to make treaties; and yet shepays six million dollars a year tribute to Turkeyas a part of the Ottoman Empire, and her armythat she is allowed to maintain is officered by Eng-lish soldiers, whom she is also allowed to maintain.She may not pay out the money she is allowedto coin without the consent of foreigners ; shecannot punish the man who steals this money, behe Greek, English, or American, without the ap-proval of these foreigners ; and her ofificial lan-guage is that of one foreign power, her ostensibleprotector is another, and her real protector is stillanother, whose commands are given under theirritating disguise of advice.
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THE ENGLISHMEN IN EGYPT 143 Alfred Milner, the late under-secretary for fi-nance in Egypt, whose England in Egypt is thebest book on the subject, though it reads like anovel, has put it in this way : It is not givento mortal intelligence to understand at one blowthe complexities of Turkish suzerainty and for-eign treaty rights; to realize the various pow-ers of interference and obstruction possessed byconsuls and consuls-general, by commissionersof the public debt, and other mixed administra-tions ; to distinguish English ofificers who areEnglish from English officers who are Egyptian,foreign judges of the international courts fromforeign judges of the native courts; to followthe writhings of the Egyptian government in itsstruggle to escape from the fine meshes of thecapitulations; to appreciate precisely what lawsthat government can make with the consent ofonly six powers, and for what laws it requires theconsent of no less than fourteen. It seems rather unfair to saddle the responsi

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