the Balkans cannot be seriously
affected by the results of the allotment. Even before the war,
the supremacy of Bulgaria was hardly questioned, and the
formation of the Balkan League would have been impossible but
for this acquiescence in her right to leadership. With the
disappearance of Turkey, this predominance is bound to be
further accentuated and henceforth will have to be reckoned with
as a political axiom.

The reasons which have enabled Bulgaria to envisage the future
with tranquillity are for her allies a source of uneasiness.
Servia and Greece have long watched the rapid and uninterrupted
progress of their pushful neighbour with mixed feelings of fear
and envy. Her seniors in point of time, they have been
outdistanced in the race for Balkan hegemony. In 1885 Servia
made a desperate attempt at grappling with the problem, but had
no reason to be satisfied with the results. The doctrine of
Balkan equilibrium was buried at Slivnitza, and since then
Servia has had to rest contented with a secondary place. But the
galling memory of defeat had never died out and probably plays
in the present anti-Bulgarian agitation a larger part than most
Servians realise or would care to admit.

Antagonism between Greeks and Bulgarians is a legacy of the
past. Their history is a long record of ceaseless struggle. When
they could no longer war as freemen, the feud was transferred to
ecclesiastical ground and there continued under the mocking eye
of their new masters. Since their restoration to independent
life, they have not been able to revert to the old tradition
owing to Turkey's presence as buffer state. This involuntary
truce, however, has not turned hatred into love. They are once
more to have a common frontier and will thus be brought in
direct contact.

... The war has widened the gulf between these races by adding
to the old stock of animosities a fresh supply of military
jealousies. It has let loose over the entire Peninsula a flood
of vanity which has upset the balance of a good many heads. A
year ago, no sane Servian would have dreamed of pitting his
country against Bulgaria, and this recognition of inferiority
stood for peace. Now, every Servian officer is convinced that
the result of such a trial of forces would be favourable to
Servia, just as he is persuade