From: buis@buengc.bu.edu (Biomed Dept I.S.L.)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.yugoslavia,soc.culture.greek
Subject: Re: The Macedonian Question and the Versaille Peace Treaty (1919)
Date: 11 Sep 92 06:14:26 GMT
Reply-To: buis@buengc.bu.edu (Lou Buis)
Followup-To: soc.culture.yugoslavia
Organization: Boston University, Boston, MA, USA

In article <9225320.22160@mulga.cs.mu.OZ.AU> 
sachz@montebello.ecom.unimelb.EDU.AU (SAS) writes:
>
>THE MACEDONIAN QUESTION AND THE VERSAILLE PEACE TREATY
>
>   The Macedonian national question appeared at the Versailles 

	Nonsence! No macedonian national question appeared in Versailles.
	Why don't you read the history books on your own? It's not that
	hard, and it's much more fun !

>   The Maceedonian emigrants, who were the only legitimate
>representatives of the Macedonian nation in the Balkans, Europe
>and America, were not inactive while the Peace Conference in
>Versailles was being held, and they alone put the Macedonian
>question as a Macedonian national question. 

	NONSENCE, again! No "macedonian national question" was put by 
	the Macedonian emigrant organisations. At that time ALL Macedonian 
	emigrant organisations were BULGARIAN. And there are documents
	everywhere that, no metter whether you want it or not, you'll
	have to face, sooner or later.

	During the years of the WWI around 40,000 Bulgarians
	"from the free Kingdom and Macedonia", as they called
	themselves, lived and worked in USA. 

	On December 1, 1918 the emigrant colonie sent 203 delegates 
	to take part in the General Congress of the Bulgarian Emigration, 
	held in Chicago, December 1-6, 1918. 

	The Congress voted two telegrams to the President Willson,
	written by the committee: Dr. Georgi Boyadzhiev, Ing. Todor
	Vladimirov, Georgi Chobanov, Yordan Stoychev and Hristo
	Atanasov. By the desire of the delegates, expressed by voting,
	The USA President was empowered at Paris Peace Conference
	in 1919 to defend the idea of the union of Macedonia and 
	Bulgaria. In this formula the emigration saw the strongest
	guarantee of preventing the dismemberment of Macedonia
	and the assimilation of its population. 

	A "MACEDONIAN-BULGARIAN Central Committee" was formed. It guided
	the efforts of the emigrants to assist the national unification of 
	the Bulgarians. The Macedono-Bulgarian Committee had ten 
	members, five of them stationed in Chicago. The members voted
	for the Secretary: 

	Zheko Banev (115 votes), Aleksandar Believ (28 votes),
	Georgi Chobanov (24 votes) and Todor Kalev (4 votes). 

	Zheko Banev was, hence, appointed as Secretary. On the 
	reccomendation of the delegats, members of the Macedono-Bulgarian
	Committee become: from Chicago - Ivan Shukanov, Dr. Hristo Stoykov,
	Dr. Georgi Boyadzhiev and Lazar Shishkov, and from the othe
	emigrant colonies - Krsto Kapitanchev (Medison, IL), David Nakov
	(Stilton, PA), fr. Nikola Pavlov (Indianapolis, IN), Kosta
	Pichulov (East Youndtown, OH) and Kosta Iliev (Homsted, PA).
 

	By these decisions the Chicago congress of December 1-6, 1918
	was an incontrovertible proof of the clear Bulgarian national
	consciousness at that time of the emigrants from Vardar and 
	Aegean Macedonia in USA.


>				 Although Lipper discussed
>the ethnic composition of the population of Macedonia, he eventually
>failed to distinguish the Macedonian inhabitants, who differ from 
>the other Balkan nations in their national feeling and language.
>The result of this was that Lipper and the other delegates 
>present discussed the solution to the Macedonian question as a 
>minority question and not as a national and territorial question.


	This is an excellent example how the "historians" from 
	the Kolishevski Government of ex-Yugoslav Socialist Republic 
	of  Macedonia were twisting the historical
	data for 50 years. Just look at it, it's a text-book example.

	Instead of reporting the HISTORICAL FACT, which in this 
	case is that Lipper in Paris recognised and supported the view that 
	Macedonians are Bulgarians, and that there will be a huge 
	Bulgarian minority in Greece and Yugoslavia, the author is covering 
	the historical data, and representing ONLY HIS VIEW WITHOUT MENTIONING
	THE FACTS! 

	Please, go back and read the paragraph again. It's excellent!

	One other thing relevant for that time:

	The Minister of the Foreign Affairs of Bulgaria, T. Teodorov, in 
	the famous Parliament meeting on November 9, 1919 said:

	"Also, we suplied facts (at the Paris Peace Conference) that the 
	whole population of Macedonia, which is mainly Bulgarian, has to be 
	given an opportunity to express their will when their future is 
	being decided, and IF THEY WANT AUTONOMY, THEY SHOULD HAVE IT !"


>
> - From the "Did You Know" facts file.
>

	Yes, a good question, "Did you know?".


	Regards,

		Lou