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i9i3] INGENUOUS CLAPTRAP
matutinal visit; but not allowing that to perturb me in
the least, I outlined a sketch of the political situation
as I saw it, and of all the dangers which were threatening
Bulgaria; I expressed the earnest hope that Danev,
who always described himself as the friend and proved
admirer of Russia, would listen in this solemn hour to
our most benevolent advice and would above all
approve of the principles of the entente drawn up by
Gueshov and Pachitch.
Alas! I realised on the spot that I had to deal with
preconceived ideas and irreconcilable obstinacy!
Danev would not perceive the dangers that his country
was incurring. According to him nearly all the
plenipotentiaries at the Conference of London were his
personal friends and sympathised with him. The
Rumanian Minister, M. Misu, the Turkish
Plenipotentiary, Osman-Nizami Pasha, and the representatives of
the Great Powers—all were supposed to have yielded
to the irrefutable arguments of Danev. True, the
Greek and Serbian Plenipotentiaries held opinions
diametrically opposed to his — but what did that
matter ? I listened in blank astonishment to this more
than ingenuous claptrap. Through the dispatches
forwarded to me from the Foreign Office, and through
conversations I had held with my foreign colleagues,
I knew perfectly well that poor Danev had become
the bete noire of the whole Conference of London, and
that his obstinacy and presumption had made a very
unfavourable impression on the ambassadors of the
Entente with regard to Bulgarian policy. Concerning
the Rumanian and Turkish Plenipotentiaries, these
gentlemen could derive no advantage from reconciling
the Bulgarians with the Serbians and Greeks, and
consequently from contradicting their Bulgarian colleague.
I concluded my interview with Danev by warning him
that at the present moment he was assuming very heavy
responsibility towards his country and the whole Slav
cause, and that the day would dawn when he would
remember the conversation he had just had with me,
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