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228 THE PEACE OF BUKHAREST [chap. xiii.
After long and arduous parleyings—during which the
support of the Russian Embassy was nevertheless lent
to the Bulgarians—the latter had to give up all Thrace
situated between the sea and the left bank of the
Maritza, and the district of Demotika on the right bank
of this river. Altogether Bulgaria, of all her conquests,
only kept that part of Thrace ending at the port of
Dedeagatch and the block of the Rhodope Mountains,
which are more of an obstacle than a link between
Bulgaria and that bit of coast of the iEgean Sea. And
the Bulgarians also lost a large portion of the Dobrudja
and of Deli-Orman, with the towns Tutrukan and
Dobritch, and the ports of Kavarna and Baltchik on
the Black Sea.
Finally, neither at the Conference of Bukharest nor
afterwards was one word said about the independence
of Mt. Athos, which had been proposed in London.
The Monte Santo—"that appanage of the Holy Virgin,"
as the local legends say—became merely the appanage
of King Constantine XIV. Even the canonical rights
of the Patriarchate of Constantinople were not specially
specified.
I was deeply astonished at the time that M. Sazonoff
could allow such complete shipwreck of the principles
that he had himself propounded with so much fairness
and feeling for the definite arrangement of the Balkan
imbroglio. I knew later that there had been reasons
for this; some of which had real weight, but others,
in my opinion, only deserved very relative
consideration.
Concerning the occupation of Adrianople and Thrace
by the Turks, M. Sazonoff met with stubborn opposition
from Germany in all attempts to reinstate the Bulgarians
in their rights of conquest. Our Foreign Secretary was
confronted anew by the humiliating vista of a
semi-ultimatum from Berlin; while from all his colleagues
of the Council he heard one and the same refrain : " Do
what you like, as long as we do not have war. War
would be the undoing of Russia!" The voice of the
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