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r9i3] BULGARIAN OPINION UNITED 217
intelligent—people believe that the Bulgarian nation
had been so accustomed to servitude that Ferdinand
could lead it whither he would. But I have always
considered this theory absolutely false. Throughout the
events of 1912 and 1913, the greater number of the
Bulgarian people were as completely one with their
King as the German people of to-day are with William II.
The whole of Bulgaria at this period was seized with
an ardent desire to put the Treaty of San-Stefano into
force, and would not hear of anything else. The
Bulgarian people knew that nearly the entire Russian
Press—in other words Russian public opinion—had
taken the part of the Serbians, the Greeks and even
the Rumanians against Bulgarian claims. And the
Bulgarian people began to sulk with Russia, like a
spoilt and naughty child sometimes sulks with its own
mother.
Ferdinand had never been popular in Bulgaria, and
one of the causes of this unpopularity lay in the
people’s deep conviction that this " Szvabio-Latin " could
not rejoice in the sympathies of the " Great Mother
Liberator" (■velika Ma’ika Osvoboditelka). Since they
thought they had been wronged by this same Ma’ika
Osvoboditelka, and since certain politicians and "
intellectuals" had dared to attack her publicly, and others
in the inner recesses of their souls criticised her bitterly,
the Bulgarians by that self-same fact became one with
their dismal master and were inclined to submit to the
direction that Ferdinand henceforth sought to give to
Bulgarian policy. Up till then there had been but one
Tsar for the Bulgarians, the White Tsar, Orthodox,
Russian ; now, indulging more and more in their worst
sentiments, the Bulgarians began to recognise another
" Tsar," he who personified deep-rooted and
ill-concealed vengeance.
On the 5th (18th) August, only a few days after the
signing of the Treaty of Bukharest, the Bulgarian capital
celebrated the solemn return of her troops. The
Bulgarian soldiers, in their brown service uniforms, spoilt
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