The Literary digest history of the world war, compiled from original and contemporary sources: American, British, French, German, and others . ian Macedonia, had prom-ised to use her influence atAthens to get for Bulgaria,Kavala and Drama, had prom-ised to Greece Albania and the^gean Islands, and to Rou-mania Bessarabia in exchangefor the Bulgar Bulgaria was promisedby ^Germany all that she hadasked of the Allies and theyhad been unable to give. Venizelos had been willing to take the risk of joining theAllies, for he believed the Allies would win, and that, ifthey won, Greece wou
The Literary digest history of the world war, compiled from original and contemporary sources: American, British, French, German, and others . ian Macedonia, had prom-ised to use her influence atAthens to get for Bulgaria,Kavala and Drama, had prom-ised to Greece Albania and the^gean Islands, and to Rou-mania Bessarabia in exchangefor the Bulgar Bulgaria was promisedby ^Germany all that she hadasked of the Allies and theyhad been unable to give. Venizelos had been willing to take the risk of joining theAllies, for he believed the Allies would win, and that, ifthey won, Greece would get her share of the spoils fromTurkey, and that the supremacy of Hellenism in the NearEast would be assured. But King Constantine preferredthe promise of his brother-in-law, the Kaiser, who had savedKavala for Greece during the peace negotiation after theSecond Balkan War. The Allies failed in the Balkannegotiations for these reasons because they could not meetthe German offer to Bulgaria, because Russian disasters hadshaken their prestige and because the Gallipoli deadlock hadweakened their hold on Balkan confidence. It was easy to. ConstantineFormer King of Greece 197 OUTBREAK AND CAUSES magnify the Allied defeat into a disaster and this was com-monly done, but it was something less than that, becausethis war was ultimately to be won on the eastern andwestern fronts—not in the Balkans. A conquest of Serbiaand an opening of the Berlin-Vienna-Constantinople rail-road might temporarily reward Teutonic enterprises, butwould not materially affect the ultimate situation. Thedefeat was a dramatic occurrence, but in the lon^ view itwas no more than that. Altho a storm of criticism wasevoked by it in Allied capitals, the war was still in its earlystages and was proceeding about as might have been ex-pected, given German superiority in ultimate resources. TheBalkan episode from a military point of view might post-pone, but it could not precipitate the ^^ The Allies Against T
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