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presided over the councils of the Bulgarians and inspired their actions. It is idle to complain of the end of an ill-begotten alliance. If Bulgaria had not attacked Serbia and Greece on that fatal day of June 1918, yet war between them was inevitable, as also was its repetition in 1915; and the war between them will be repeated in the future as soon as Bulgaria judges the moment propitious for the realisation of her dream of hegemony in the Balkans.

The late Bulgarian premier, M. Gueshoy, in his recently published volume The Balkan Alliance, has tried to exonerate himself and his colleagues in the Cabinet, and to throw the whole responsibility for the treachery to his allies upon Ferdinand of Saxe-Coburg, Tsar of Bulgaria and a German prince. “In spite of the unanimous decision of the Bulgarian Government,” M. Gueshov writes, ‘‘ and unknown to the Cabinet, the Bulgarian armies attacked their allies, the Serbians and Greeks, by order of the Tsar of Bulgaria. . . . This was a criminal folly, for which the Bulgarian nation could not be held responsible, as its regular Government had not decided to declare war on the Allies.” But M. Gueshoy, in attacking the principal actor in the ugly drama of the Balkans, is not attacking and denouncing the Tsar of Bulgaria on account of the moral ugliness of his action, but because the open treachery failed to bring in such results as had been looked for in Sofia. To the states-

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