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228.: WAR WITH RUSSIA EXAMINER, 5 JAN., 1834, P. 840 - John Stuart Mill, The Collected Works of John Stuart Mill, Volume XXIII - Newspaper Writings August 1831 - October 1834 Part II [1831]

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The Collected Works of John Stuart Mill, Volume XXIII - Newspaper Writings August 1831 - October 1834 Part II, ed. Ann P. Robson and John M. Robson, Introduction by Ann P. Robson and John M. Robson (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1986).

Part of: Collected Works of John Stuart Mill, in 33 vols.

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228.

WAR WITH RUSSIA

EXAMINER, 5 JAN., 1834, P. 840

This paragraph, which immediately follows that in No. 227 under the dateline “London, January 5, 1834,” is not mentioned in Mill’s bibliography. However, it is listed in the Somerville College set of the Examiner as “Paragraph on a war with Russia”; like No. 227 (q.v.) it is listed by Mill as on p. 8.

the times has this week busied itself in instigating Government and the nation to a war which would infallibly involve not only all Europe, but Asia, Africa, and America also.1 A Ministry which should go to war to prevent Russia from taking possession of Turkey, especially when it is too late to save Poland, would deserve to lose their heads; and we trust it would not be long ere they would be reminded of the liability.

[1 ]See the leading articles on Turkey, The Times, 1 and 2 Jan., 1834, both on p. 2. Fear of Russian hegemony in Turkey and the eastern Mediterranean prompted a proposed increase in the British and French fleets in the area; Russia protested against this proposal, and war seemed imminent.