It was a tragic end from more than one point
of view. M. Stambulisky was a real patriot and managed the foreign policy of Bulgaria with purpose and consistency. There was no more popular figure in Bulgaria when it was discovered, towards the end of the Great War that, in his courageous opposition to the, pro-German policy of the King and M. Radoslavoff, he had been a true. prophet. He might have achieved almost anything if he had been tolerant of his opponents, but he was not. He thought that the tremendous support of the peasantry, who, as a result of the crash at the end of the War had at last come into their own, was enough to carry him through. He ignored the bourgeois classes, except in their capacity as taxpayers, and the penalty he has paid is one more proof that a Government to be stable must recognize that a nation is composed of many and various elements.
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