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(1920) [MARC] Author: Anatolij Nekljudov - Tema: Russia, War
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MY ADVICE TO DANEV

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memory does not fail me—two or three days before
the Rumanian troops crossed the Danube.

"Very well," I said to Danev, "you are undone ! And
here is a friend’s advice which I offer in all sincerity:
stop the Rumanians immediately, giving them all the
concessions they demand, and also immediately ask for
peace in Belgrade and in Bukharest. Otherwise the
Turks will soon be falling on you. M. de Giers has
just informed me that whereas the Grand Vizier is
repeatedly assuring him that Turkey is not dreaming
of moving or of joining in the new Balkan war, the
Russian Embassy possesses positive information that
the Turkish troops are advancing by night ever nearer
to the new Bulgarian frontier, and that a fairly
considerable force is already concentrated there. Hence I
reiterate my most earnest advice : make peace with
your former allies at once and at any cost, otherwise
you will suffer the worst disasters; for you are undone."

Danev would not accept my extreme but strictly
logical deductions. He replied that the Bulgarians
would not oppose any resistance to the Rumanian
troops—that had been decided on ; they had only to
occupy the Dobrudja and a part of Danubian Bulgaria.
The present object of the Bulgarian Army wTas to hold
the Greeks, and, by stopping the Serbians on the
Bregalnitza, to enter Serbia from the other side, that is
to say, from the side of the north-eastern frontier, where
the Bulgarians to this end had mustered special and
fairly considerable forces. When a success should be
apparent on this new side, the Rumanians would be
forced to stop and to become more conciliatory. As to
the Turks, Danev persisted in not believing in their
intention to re-take Adrianople and Thrace. I did not
conceal from the speaker that I did not share his
opinion in any way, and I drew his attention to the fact
that by not heeding my advice he was assuming a very
heavy responsibility towards his country.

Two days after, however, the Bulgarian
Government, in view of the crossing of the Danube by large

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