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CHAPTER IV
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russian and bulgarian relations
I had been acquainted with M. Gueshov for a long time,
and I had a liking for this calm, self-possessed old man,
whom I held to be perfectly sincere in his feelings
towards Russia. Such he appeared to me during the
whole time that I had dealings with him. In the spring
of 1912, when I was in St. Petersburg, M. Sazonoff, to
whom I imparted my sentiments conceiving Gueshov,
simply remarked : " he is crafty"; he repeated this
in 1913 when Gueshov had already been out of office
for some months; but he would never explain his
words. I conclude that this opinion of Gueshov came
from a Bulgarian source. It is also true that since
1914 M. Gueshov’s newspaper, The Mir, has gone over
rather openly to the side of the enemies of Russia
and the Entente. Nevertheless, until I have proof to the
contrary I shall persist in asserting that during his
whole term of office his attitude towards us was perfectly
correct, and that he sincerely desired to act in accordance
with Russia’s views. After the catastrophe of 1913
Bulgarian feelings changed and became so hostile that
even the passing over of old Gueshov to the enemy’s
camp could be admitted as a possibility; but one ought
to know if this really ever took place, and whether
Gueshov, who has lived abroad a great deal since 1913,
really inspired the articles in The Mir.
At one time also I had been acquainted with M.
Todorov,1 who in the Gueshov-Danev Cabinet held the
post of Minister of Finance and in the " Narodniak " party
the second place after M. Gueshov. He was a very
1 His name is now spelled Theodorov, and he is Bulgarian
Plenipotentiary at the Conference in Paris.
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