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1911] FALL OF MALINOV CABINET 17
The King’s treatment of his Prime Minister did not
altogether astonish me; I had often heard of the
offhand manner with which he treated his Ministers;
moreover, during the customary interview which I had
had the day before with M. Malinov, the latter did not
conceal from me that the days of his Cabinet were
numbered, and that in all probability he would shortly
hand in his resignation and that of his colleagues to
the King. A few days after my audience I left for Paris,
in order to collect my establishment and to make the
necessary purchases for my new installation. I stayed
a couple of days in Vienna, and there I read in the
papers of the resignation of the Malinov Cabinet, and
of the formation of the Gueshov-Danev Coalition
Ministry, with the leaders of which I had had long
conversations before my departure.
The fall of the Malinov Cabinet was not due to
any acute political crisis. As always happens in
parliamentary countries, but more particularly in the Balkan
States, the Ministry was simply worn out by a fairly
long period of power, and then foreign political
circumstances were assuming another direction which naturally
demanded other actors.
The Malinov Cabinet had witnessed a crisis as
strange as it was unforeseen in Macedonian affairs. As
is well known, during the first years of the century
European diplomacy had undergone high trials in
Macedonia. I mean the usual sequence, but becoming
year by year more complicated, of plots, provocations,
local massacres; and above all the vehemence of the
struggle between the rival Christian nationalities:
Serbianjj Bulgarian, Greek; between the two latter,
particularly, deeds of ferocious cruelty were committed.
The situation gradually led to the direct interference
of Europe. The country was placed under the authority
of an Ottoman High Commissioner chosen by the
Powers; two civil commissioners—one Russian and one
Austrian—were added; European officers were placed
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