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66 SERBO-BULGARIAN TREATY [chap. vi.
conversation. The King realised that I had no intention
of becoming the blind interpreter of his opinions to the
Imperial Government; he also understood that the
Serbo-Bulgarian treaty gave a certain hold over him to Russian
policy and consequently to the representatives of the
Tsar. Ferdinand felt that certain alleys were henceforth
closed to him : the feeling was unbearable and roused his
anger against the Russian Minister who contemplated
hampering the freedom of his political enterprises.
M. Gueshov, with whom I had a long interview on
the eve of my departure, did not display any apprehension
—in contrast to his master—on the score of the
newly-signed agreement, and repeated the opinion, already
expressed by him during the course of the negotiations
with Spalaikovitch, that the Serbo-Bulgarian treaty,
concluded under the aegis of Russia, would necessarily
involve the conclusion of military conventions between
the two contracting parties as well as between both of
them and Russia. I had already imparted this suggestion
of M. Gueshov’s to M. Sazonoff, and added—as my
private opinion—that such conventions, drawn up, of
course, on strictly defensive lines, might furnish us with
further means of preventing ill-timed action on the part
of the two Balkan kingdoms. The answer was delayed,
and on taking leave of M. Gueshov, I promised him
that I would go into the question in St. Petersburg,
and would bring him back a definite answer from M.
Sazonoff.
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