Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-07-01
OFFICIALS In BALKANS
ALL DESTROYS OF PEACE
But Hate" Figures Large in National
Policies As Suspicion Grows
Apace.

lister Liaptcheff Of Bulgaria. He Is an
able. conciliatory statesman, who. more
than any other Bulgarian prime min
lister since the war, has earned to some
extent the respect both of his own c!u-
Zens and his nervous neighbors. Mr..
Liaptcheff said:
I'VE in Bulgaria want peace. 1t is
our only policy. We are a disarmed
state, and 1t can be our only policy.
We will stretch out a hand in peace TO
Jugoslavia the moment We are con-
yinced that Jugoslavia will return the
handclaSp."
Working Toward Peace.
As a matter of curious fact. jealous
as the Serbs and Bulgars ere, Dad as
the situation is between them OH &C
count of Macedonia. there is more
chance of honest rapprochement now
between the two countries than there
has been since 19l2~-on account OF
Italy! Italian foreign policy would
suffer an inconceivably serious defeat
If Bulgaria and Serbia joined-eus
paradoxically Italian activity Is opening
the way to that eventuality-of course
remotely.
Fear OF Italy makes Belgrade want
all the friends 1t can get. Belgrade
is extremely eonciliatory toward soma
just now.
A few weeks after seeing Prime Min
lister Liaptcheff, saw Foreign Minister
Marinkovitch i'll Belgrade, and ne SAID,
in the same words
I'VE in Jugoslavia want peace. 1t
is our only policy, We cannot fASarm,
because there Is danger u us nom
some quarters. But as far as Bulgaria
is concerned, we will stretch out hand
in peace to Sofia the moment we are
convinced that Sofia will return II"
Some weeks before. on the same trip,
/ was in Turkey. I saw Foreign Min
lister Tewfik Rushdi Eey. through the
great courtesy of American Ambassador
Joseph c. Grew and recall that Tewfik
said
I'VE in Turkey want peace. AS for
eign minister that's all / have to saw.
That's the whole basis OF my foreign
policy and that's all my foreign policy
consists Of"
Greece Joins Chorus.
Then little later / was In Athens.
The foreign minister is large gentle
man named Michalcopolous. Mr.. Mich
alcopololis Joined his colleagues.
IT'S ridiculous to think OF anything
but peace in connection with Greek
foreign pOlcy, we nave no more ter
ritorial ambitions; We have our house
in order. Peace Is the only sane thing
And we will not disturb that peace"
Some time before I had been In Buk-
harest did not see M TituleScu who
was i'll, but did see Prime Minister
Jon Bratianu just before he died.
Bratianu talked mostly about domestic
things. about Carol and the regency and
the boy king but he did say that Ru-
mania, as far as external affairs was
concerned, was Satisfied"-~peaee ard
peace only was the order OF the day.
The only dissenting voice / got was
from NJ Woke. foreign minister of
Hungary He said he wanted peace. of
course. But he pointed out that Hun
gary Is In different position from the
other nations. and before there can be
any real peace In Europe there must be
rectiiieation OF Hnngary's frontiers hut
he said he would approach the question
of rectiilcation by peaceahle means,
Here. then, Is this mist OF hate hlan-
keting the BALKANS like poison Gas, And
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