If Germany really means to treat Bulgaria as she treated
Belgium, we can only say that she proposes to do for the cause of Britain, France, and Russia what their own diplomacy has hitherto failed to do for them. She would show Bulgaria where her true interests lie. Bulgaria by submitting would once for all lose her independence. Against that loss she would be able to count a promise—a German promise. And *hat does the promise amount to even if it Can be kept lb is ts promise that Bulgaria shall have liberty to repeat the mad policy which shattered the Balkan Alliance at the end of the first Balkan War; that she shall have liberty to rob and antagonize Serbia, and prevent all possibility of a Balkan settlement. Such a promise really means that Germany promises herself a future opportunity to enrich herself under the form of saving the Balkan States from one another. But apart from all this, is it probable that the alert, proud, and high-mettled Bulgarians will tamely sit down nutlet. the German threat ? We do not believe it. We think better of them. What the Belgians did the Bulgarians are surely proud enough also to do.
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