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1913] MY SUGGESTED COMPROMISE 161
lips of the wounded who were being nursed in our
hospitals.
Woe to the sovereigns ! woe to the statesmen! who
have not understood that a people cannot live
exclusively for their material welfare and the aims of their
national policy unless at the same time their hearts are
opened to other feelings, more especially to those of
justice and of human solidarity !
I address these words to the Palace of Sofia, but
with the humble prayer to pass them on to German
Headquarters !1
As I said above, with the taking of Adrianople all
interest was centred on the relations between the
Allies, and in the first place on the relations between
Bulgarians and Serbians. When in November, 1912,
the result of the war become fairly apparent and
negotiations between the Allies and Turkey were
already in sight, I twice submitted a project to our
Foreign Secretary which, in my opinion, might
facilitate and accelerate the conclusion of peace and prevent
a clash of interests between the Allies, a clash that I
dreaded from that moment. This project consisted in
the creation of a Macedonia which was to be completely
autonomous but of restricted dimensions, for it was
only to include just those districts which might be
disputed between the competitors. The remainder of
the territories conquered from the Turks would be
easily divided by the Allies. I foresaw at the same
time the creation of an autonomous Albania of which
the limits would be fixed by an agreement between
the Great Powers.
I realised perfectly that such a compromise would
in no way offer the definite solution of the Balkan
question ; but in the first place I have never been able to
understand why one was to ask of the present
generation the solution of all the most difficult questions ; and
then I feared above all things that events would drag
1 These lines were written in June, 1918.
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