In both Houses of Parliament on Thursday week statements were
made on the new Balkan situation. Mr. Asquith refused to give any opportunity for a debate on the subject on the ground that discussion would be opposed to the public interest. In the Lords, however, there was a debate, to which we shall refer presently. Sir Edward Grey said that the Allies had been ready to do all they could to guarantee concessions to Bulgaria, but the consent of Serbia and Greece to those concessions necessarily depended upon the promise of Bulgaria to take the side of the Allies against Turkey. That promise was an essential preliminary to any arrangement. Unhappily there were acute divisions among the Balkan States, and the Central Powers had offered Bulgaria more than the Allies could offer her. Of course, the German pledges had been made at the expense of Bulgaria's neighbours without Offering those neighbours any corresponding advantages.
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