>Франция еще не начала завоевание Алжира, нет никакого Суэца, противостояния Англии и России еще тоже нет.
>Ром, плеть и содомия - вот и все традиции Королевского флота
Но тем не менее именно в этом заключается современный консенсус о политике Каннинга. Напр,
Nevertheless, before I refer to Canning's policy as this was shaped in the year 1824, I shall try to figure out what events or thoughts triggered Canning to alter it. Because even if we accept as true that Canning's sympathy for the plight of the Greeks was genuine, it is not a reason, strong enough, for á statesman to base his policy on. Accordingly, some of us would ask: what were those facts that brought Canning's philhellenism on the surface? First, it is true that even before G. Canning held his post at Foreign Office, there was a rather strong philhellenic tendency among the British people and some were actively involved in the Greek War of Independence: Lord Byron, General Thomas Gordon, and Abney Hastings. The sympathy that the British people felt for the Greeks could not let Canning unaffected. Actually, Finley writes: "the British government consequently opposed to the revolution; but it had not, like that of Russia, the power to coerce the sympathies of the Britons."
Yet, the growing British philhellenism could not had been enough to make Canning change his policy toward the Greeks. For, Great Britain, before the Greek Revolution which changed dramatically the picture in the East, had serious economic reasons to long for a strong and unified Ottoman Empire. The first reason was that the Russians had at all costs to be kept away from the Mediterranean Sea. The second reason was that the Ottoman Empire provided the British with á safe passage to India. A third point was that England wanted to maintain the position she had at the Ionian Islands. But if she was to accept the slow disintegration of the Ottoman Empire and an independent Greek state, she would not be able to justify her position in the Ionians.
И т п. Подобные пассажи находятся практически в любой книге по теме.
