Although the belief expressed in Sofia as recently as the end of October that, notwithstanding En. ver Pasha and German influence, Turkey would not push matters to the verge of war been falsified, the results which Berlin hoped her intervention would produce have so far not made their appearance. Thie is to be attributed to two cross-currents in Balkan politico, one of which is an improvement in Bulgarian feeling towsrde Greece. Between Greeks and Turkt there will never, probably, be aay love lost, but between Greeks one Bulgare friendlier relations have been developing steadily. On other hand, while the traditions! enmity of Bulgaria and Servie it as acute.to-day as it has ever beea, any overt expression of it liable to lead to war is being repressed by friendship for Russia. Thus, for the time being, we are preeeated with the paradox that what has hitherto been the most inflammable quarter in the world refuses to catch fire though practically sll Europe is ablaze. thought of a Government rendered desperate by the consciousness of ite own miscalculations, and the: lconeequent necessity of having to fight simultaneously many more enemies than it expected, but proved to have been arranged from the very beginning, during times when the world was constantly assured that all her military and naval preparations were being undertaken solely for defensive purposes.
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