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190 CHRISTIAN GREECE AND LIVING GREEK. it would be a very bad example for other coun- tries. During the whole of the war Austria — the most implacable of her enemies — did everything pos- sible to hinder Greece's regeneration. Prince Metternich, as was remarked by the Duke of Wellington, gave himself up "body and soul" to the Turks as far as regarded Greece. He looked upon the Greeks simply as rebels against their lawful sovereign. The Greeks complained bit- terly of the conduct of the Austrian ships, which they represented as being the most effective allies of the Turkish cause. The Austrians trans- ported convoys and munitions of war to the Turkish garrisons and fortresses, and broke through the Greek blockades — acts which were more than a gross violation of neutrality, they amounted to a direct participation in the war on the side of the Turks. The Hellenes owe much to Byron, Canning, and Gladstone, and the English people, although the English government had not done half as much for the Greeks as has been done in the attempt to fashion an independent Bulgaria. Among the many enemies of the Greeks who do their nefarious work in the daily papers or other periodicals is a man who signs