ograd as well
as with Berlin and Vienna. With which side are we in this
war? The two belligerent groups are asking this and the same
question is asked of Bulgaria and Greece. We must have a
sound national policy, for in this most modern war there is
no profit in the old Machiavellian tactics.

That a crisis is approaching in Balkan affairs is clearly indicated in
an editorial warning headed "Beware, ye Balkan Peoples!" appearing on
May 29 in Dnevnik, an independent Bulgarian daily of Sofia. It says:

The lust of Europe for territorial aggrandizement becomes
every day more pronounced. From a struggle for self-defense
this has become a war of conquest. Germany has appropriated
Belgium, Russia fights for the Bosporus and Constantinople,
Italy has almost taken Albania--with the approval of
Austria, as we have discovered. The westernmost edge of the
Balkan Peninsula has fallen; tomorrow the easternmost
extremity will fall, together with Constantinople. Will the
European Powers then spare us?... What the United States of
America did for the preservation of their independence
against foreign conquest we Balkan peoples must do unless we
would see our doom sealed.

"The Dangers of a Neutral Policy" is the theme of Mir, the organ of
the Bulgarian Nationalist Party of Sofia, which on May 29 said: "If
Bulgaria remains neutral to the end of the war, she runs the risk of
being condemned to live forever within the narrow limits she has
today, hemmed in on every side. The duty of the Balkan States is to
act in a war which will solve all pending political and national
problems."

Serbia's jealousy of Italy, despite that nation's late adhesion to the
Allies, was voiced on May 25 by Politika, a Nationalist daily of
Belgrade, which accuses Italy of trying to profit at Serbia's expense.
The Entente Powers must pay for Italian aid, this paper says; and
Italy may be "satisfied with Savoy, Corsica, Malta, Tunis, Algiers,
Asia Minor, or Egypt."

[Illustration: Balkan Newspapers

In the left upper corner, the Bulgarian daily Narodai Prava (National
Rights) of Sofia, semi-official organ of the Bulgarian Government of
Dr. B. Radoslavoff; upper right, the Athenian daily Athinae (Athens),
representing the extreme anti-Venizelists; at lower right, the daily
Politika (Politics), an independent paper of Belgrade, Serbia; lower
left, the Bucharest (Rumania) dai