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i9i3] M. SPALAIKOVITCH’S VIEWS 137
at all, and told him very emphatically not to mention
it to any one. Evidently Pachitch considered the taking
of Adrianople to be indispensable. This town, and
Thrace as far as the Ergene, to Serbian eyes apparently,
represented for the Bulgarians the equivalent of what
they would have to give up in Macedonia. I concluded
from this that in Belgrade they had irrevocably decided
to obtain a modification of the demarcation agreement
of 1912, and especially to insist on the Serbian and
Greek frontiers joining.
News came very soon that M. Venizelos, then
omnipotent Prime Minister of Greece, was going to
Belgrade to confer with M. Pachitch. This news
caused great alarm in the political circles of Sofia,
because the relations between the Bulgarians and their
Greek allies were already very bad, and those between
the Bulgarians and Serbians were palpably changing
for the worse. Before Adrianople the Serbian and
Bulgarian soldiers still fraternised willingly enough;
but the officers already looked askance at one another,
and ended by forbidding their men to associate
mutually; but I ought to mention that the initial step
of this odious measure was taken by the Bulgarian
Headquarters Staff. At the same time, in Sofia,
Spalaikovitch no longer refrained from expressing his
displeasure and his suspicions with regard to the
Bulgarians. He was extremely outspoken on the
subject, especially when he was talking to the
representatives of the Entente. One of the conversations
I had with him at this period engraved itself deeply
on my memory. I was trying to persuade him that
it was not to the interest of the Serbians and that it
was even very dangerous for them to be at daggers
drawn with the Bulgarians. " I admit," I said to
Spalaikovitch, "that Serbia has been cruelly wronged
compared to Bulgaria. They have taken from her the
outlet to the sea, to which she had every right to aspire,
and which she purchased with her blood. I admit also
that the Bulgarians have made territorial acquisitions
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