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188 QUARRELS BETWEEN THE ALLIES [ch. xi.
public. I had missed the article in the Retch at the
time, and when I was told of it, it was too late to have
an explanation with M. Miliukoff, who, up till then,
had entirely shared my point of view on the subject of
Bulgarian affairs. Moreover, I did not see Miliukoff
after Sofia till about six months before our Revolution,
that is to say, at a time when one no longer had leisure
to think of past events or to talk about them.
The Emperor’s telegram to the King was soon
followed by instructions from M. Sazonoff as to the
way in which the generous proposal of our august
Master was to be carried out.
The Bulgarian and Serbian Governments were
invited to dispatch to St. Petersburg, with the least
possible delay, memoranda presenting their arguments
on the question; these memoranda would be carefully
studied by our Foreign Office, after which the Prime
Ministers of Serbia, Bulgaria, and Greece1 were to
come to St. Petersburg; the respective Russian
Ministers were to accompany them. I transmitted
these conditions to M. Todorov, who at this moment
was acting ad interim for the Foreign Secretary. Two
or three days after he telephoned to beg me to come to
the Foreign Office to confer with him and a few other
people, who had just been at a conference convened at
the Palace, to discuss my last communication. On
arriving at M. Todorov’s house, I found General Savov,
whom I had never met before, M. Rizov, and another
member of the Cabinet. These gentlemen told me that
it had been decided at the Palace to beg me to telegraph
to St. Petersburg that the King and the Bulgarian
Government gratefully accepted the programme of the
Russian arbitration, and were ready to dispatch their
delegates to our country, but that, on the other hand,
they wished to have an assurance that the award of the
1 Greece had in the meantime expressed the desire to take part
in the Russian arbitration, and we consented to this without any
difficulty.
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