not being able to win a port on the Moroccan coast. She also considered that her "position as a world power" had been jeopardized "by the joint machinations of the French and the British." [notes 1] The friendship between England and France had been strengthened as well as the hostility between Germany and her rivals; and thus the Moroccan question in passing left behind a legacy of jealousy and hatred between the Entente and its enemies that foreboded greater trouble in the future.
Although Morocco had thus been eliminated as a source of trouble, still the peace of Europe was being threatened from another quarter. A growing friction between the rival groups had developed over the Balkan situation. To understand this situation it is necessary to review briefly some of the events out of which it has grown.
There were many different peoples in the Balkan peninsula at the time it was overrun by the Turks. Of these, the most important were the Serbs, the Bulgars, the Albanians, the Rumanians, and the Greeks. The Turks ruled these subject races very harshly and unjustly, extorting from them exorbitant and at times almost ruinous taxes and subjecting them to all sorts of cruel indignities. They were, however, permitted to retain their religion, their civil
- ↑ Hayes, 706.
