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CHAPTER XIII
the peace of bukharest
The stipulations of the Peace Conference of Bukharest,
to be properly understood, must be studied with due
regard to the conditions of the peace concluded by the
Balkan Allies with Turkey in London, on the 20th May
of this same year, 1913. In London, Turkey had been
obliged to abandon all her territories situated north and
west of the line Midia—Enos, and to renounce her
rights of sovereignty over the island of Crete. After
which, the fixing of the frontiers of the future
independent Albania, as well as the question of the islands
of the Archipelago, were referred to the decisions of
the Great Powers, whereas the demarcation between
Serbia, Bulgaria, Montenegro, and Greece was left to
the decisions of these four countries.
There was another clause in the London Peace
Treaty which did not seem to evoke any controversy
or excitement, but to which I personally attached a
special importance. This clause stipulated that the
territory of Mt. Athos should become an independent
state, except for the spiritual supremacy of the
Universal Patriarch. "The Republic of the Twenty
Monasteries"—as this original agglomeration of
Orthodox monks has been described for centuries—was
recognised by Europe, and declared free from all
temporal supremacy. The idea of this clause, which
I greeted with sympathy, was entirely M. Sazonoff’s.
Strictly Orthodox by education and having learnt during
his long stay in Rome not to neglect anything relative
to the political sphere of the Church, Sazonoff, although
not possessing personal experience of the Near East,
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