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19x3] MY ADVICE TO M. GUESHOV 141
the Palace. The meeting and conversation with this
eminent Greek statesman left not only an agreeable
impression on me, but also a tranquillising one.
The next day I went to see Gueshov, and had a long
conversation with him on the subject of what Venizelos
had said to me the evening before. I impressed most
emphatically on the Bulgarian President of the Council
the necessity of starting negotiations in due order as
soon as possible with the Greek Government, and of
responding to the wise moderation of Venizelos by
prudent concessions.
" If the policy pursued by you here at the moment is
continued for two or three months more, you will be
surrounded by irreconcilable enemies," I said to Gueshov.
" You complain of the Serbian claims and of their
intention to violate the treaty signed hardly a year ago. But
if you settle the demarcation question definitely and in a
friendly way with the Greeks, the Serbian claims will
naturally diminish ; in the opposite case you are actually
threatened with the danger of a defensive and even
offensive alliance between the Greeks and the Serbians,
an alliance not yet concluded, for I have complete trust
in Venizelos’ word—but which might be concluded in
the immediate future. Besides this, you seem to have
completely forgotten your relations with Rumania, who
looks on the increase of Bulgarian power as a real
menace to her. And you must surely realise that even
after the conclusion of peace, the Turks will bear malice
for ages, not against all their conquerors collectively,
but almost entirely against the Bulgarians, as being the
strongest and the nearest—hence the most dangerous of
their neighbours. Do try to divide the difficult political
problem with which you are faced into several parts,
and to solve at least one definitely. It is lucky for you
that at the head of Greek policy at the moment there
should be a man so essentially moderate and wise as
Venizelos. You ought promptly to take advantage
of this good luck before Greece gets into such a state
of ferment that neither Venizelos nor King George
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