The military agreement only came into existence
shortly before the war. The differences that have sub-
sequently arisen seem to indicate that the territorial
arrangements made between the allies at the begin-
ning of the campaign can only have been of the most
general and tentative order.
We have a significant indication that the rise of the
League was brought about in a somewhat piecemeal
fashion, in the fact that the leading statesmen of the
Balkan Powers mutually attribute to each other the
initiative in the creation of the alliance. So during
the war Gueshoff greeted Pasitch as the creator of
the League, while Pasitch and Venezelos returned the
compliment to Gueshoff.
As to the prospects of the lasting character of the
League, opinion is at present not unanimous. We
may take it, however, tliat the great advantages the



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Balkan States have so far derived from their alliance
will be a conclusive argument for the continuance of
such united action. And thus the Balkan War, which
has had so many disagreeable consequences for
Europe, will at least bring after it that lasting peace
in the Balkan Peninsula that has so long been the
earnest aim of European policy.
CHAPTER II



TOWARDS WAR



SHORTLY before the outbreak of the war be-
tween Italy and Turkey, M. Gueshoff had gone
to Vichy for the sake of his health, and soon after it
began he returned to Sofia by way of Vienna. He had
at once taken the view that the interests of Bulgaria
would be indirectly a£Fected by the war in Tripoli.
