Lord Granville expressed his satisfaction that the Treaty of Paris
was not to be torn up, especially on the ground that it provided an opening for a concert of the European Powers on the Turkish question, and recorded those declarations of the Sultan the execution of which Europe had a right to demand. He maintained that the Turkish Government was certainly guilty of complicity in the Bulgarian atrocities, and asked if such atrocities were not still going on. He insisted much on the necessity of keeping up a concert among the European Powers on the subject, and maintained that if all Europe acted in concert, Turkey would never resist the united pressure of all the European States. He was not sure but that England herself was the chief obstacle in the way of such accord. Lord Granville also twitted the Cabinet with their internal differences ; he was told they were quite united, but if so, they were certainly very different from most Cabinets, which usually are united in public, and show their differences in private, while this Cabinet is only united in private, and shows its differences in public.
