The reconstruction of South-Eastern Europe

SOUTH-EASTERN EUROPE

attaining this object, which is in accordance with their best interests, as well as with justice and solemnly proclaimed principles.

The last peace proposal was a snare cunningly laid to secure for Germany by diplomatic means, what she is unable to obtain by force. Fortunately the Allies are not to be entrapped. Their spontaneous unanimity in refusing to treat at present with Germany, and the grim determination to continue the fight for liberty and right are the sure guarantee that the war aims of the Allies will be attained. With that object in view, the present writings have been undertaken to supply the British reader in one single volume with historical and political material concerning those questions of South-Eastern Europe, without the thorough solution of which the security of European peace cannot be thought of.