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1 88 CHRISTIAN GREECE AND LIVING GREEK. gations toward the French because, firstly, they had had to overcome the policy of their govern- ment, and secondly, they had succeeded in mak- ing all European nations co-operate with them in the work of charity. At the end of the fear- ful year 1826, the Parisian committee had sent 2 , 500,000 francs. Even in Vienna the ice melted and contributions came in ; and in America there was great activity in behalf of the Greeks, with happy results. This popular sympathy, this public opinion in favor of Greece, however, became an addition- al reason for the rabid hostility with which the governments regarded the Hellenic cause. "How is it possible to doubt," wrote Count Bernstorff from Berlin, "that the safety of Euro- pean society is menaced by the war which threatens Europe, when we see that every revo- lutionist in every country is making it the object of all his hopes and expectations ? ... It would appear that their aim in wishing to have Greece free is only that they may set free the spirit of evil in all the Christian states of Europe ; they hate the Turks only in order to satisfy their hatred of the allied powers, and they call for the intervention of Russia with the treacherous hope of thereby dissolving the union which