. What really happened at Paris; the story of the Peace Conference, 1918-1919. These three salients are occupied by Bulgarian popula-tions, and not only in the territorial commissions but alsoin the supreme council the American representativesopposed to the end, and had their opposition enteredin the record, the giving of Bulgarian territory to agreatly enlarged Jugo-SIavia. That state already in-cluded Slovenes of doubtful allegiance, colonies of Ger-mans and Hungarians north of the Save, Montenegrinsand Macedonian Slavs who certainly A/v(anted least of allto be added to Serbia. And now the^-
. What really happened at Paris; the story of the Peace Conference, 1918-1919. These three salients are occupied by Bulgarian popula-tions, and not only in the territorial commissions but alsoin the supreme council the American representativesopposed to the end, and had their opposition enteredin the record, the giving of Bulgarian territory to agreatly enlarged Jugo-SIavia. That state already in-cluded Slovenes of doubtful allegiance, colonies of Ger-mans and Hungarians north of the Save, Montenegrinsand Macedonian Slavs who certainly A/v(anted least of allto be added to Serbia. And now the^-Jugo-SIavs werebent, for strategic reasons—^the protection of the railwayline from Nish to Saloniki—on lopping off four pieces ofBulgarian territory and carrying the boundary in oneplace within artillery range of Sofia, the capital of Bul-garia. Of the four pieces of territory which Bulgaria has loston the west—Timok, Tsaribrod, Bosilegrad, and Stru-mitsa—^the southernmost one, the Strumitsa salient, rep-resents the most significant loss, and it is also the 168 WHAT REALLY HAPPENED AT PARIS For the lopping ofi of this projection of Bulgaria intoMacedonia puts an end, at least for the present, to thelong process begun in 1870, with the foundation of theBulgarian exarchate, and enhanced in 1878 with theautonomy of Bulgaria, which had for its object theBulgarization of Macedonia and its ultimate annexationto the Bulgarian realm. This act and the tacit confir-mation by the powers of the Serbo-Greek boundary inMacedonia throws the Macedonian question into itslatest, possibly its last, phase. The refined ethnographicand linguistic studies of the past few years have showncontradictory or indefinite results as to the individualis-tic character of the Macedonian region. On the physicalside it is made up of bits of several adjacent naturalregions., On the religious side it might, in the nascentstate in which it was in 1870, have just as readily becomean appanage of Serb
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