When we look into the matter a little more closely
we see that all that the Powers can do collectively in the ease of Bulgaria is to warn her that if she does take action and .makes war on Turkey, they will not come to her help if she is unsuccessful, and that if she is successful she will not in the ultimate rearrangements be allowed to reap any benefit from her breach of the peace. That sounds formidable, and in a sense is formidable, but at the same time the Bulgarians may feel that if they were to defeat the Turks and free Macedonia, Europe could never restore Turkish rule in a Christian province, and that it might very well be that the Powers would find it impossible to make good their declara- tion that Bulgaria should in no case benefit. In truth, the only Power which can control the situation by the use of physical force is Austria-Hungary, which could either antici- pate Bulgaria by an advance into Macedonia through the Sarijak of Novibazar, or coerce the four States by the occupation of Servia and Montenegro and by naval action on the 2Egean and Adriatic shores of Greece.
