M. Radoslavoff says plainly that Bulgaria would rather be on
the side of the Quadruple Entente. But everything depends on what she is offered. She will "close" with Germany's offer if Germany can really guarantee her the restoration of Serbian Macedonia. As for the rumours that Bulgaria would set up a claim to Constantinople if she fought in the war, M. Radoslavoff says that these are absurd. Bulgaria's ideals are purely racial, and she knows, moreover, that she must always be a small Power. The possession of such a city as Constantinople, with all its international responsibilities, would be quite beyond her scope. We always said that Bulgaria, in spite of her wanton attack on her allies at the end of the first Balkan War, was squeezed and humiliated unneces- sarily, and that her neighbours would probably be sorry one day. Here is Nemesis in one form. If the Concert had imposed a peace on the Balkans satisfying, or at all events just, to all, there could have been no question now of a Christian Balkan State seriously talking of siding, in effect, with the arch-enemy—the Turk. Fortunately it is not too late even now to make a fresh Balkan alliance. We have written on the whole subject elsewhere.
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