However, during 1919 and 1920, the
two Governments resolved, in the furtherance of their good
understanding, to raise none of these questions, neither the claims of
the derelict Slavs, who are mostly Exarchists, nor of the Monastir
Greeks, who are mostly hellenized Vlachs. The two countries, while
Venizelos was in power, were acting on the principles of the Serbo-Greek
friendship that used to be advocated by _L'Hellenisme_, the newspaper
which Sir Anastasius Adossides, under Venizelos the enlightened
Governor-General of Salonica, published for several years before the
first Balkan War in Paris. Yugoslavia was to have every facility given
her in Salonica, which course would naturally be the most beneficial to
that place. And among the minor advantages of really amicable relations
would be the impossibility of such a state of things as once prevailed
at Doiran, where the masters of the Greek and Bulgarian schools were
neither of them in a position to chastise their peccant pupils, who
could always have the last word by threatening to transfer themselves to
the rival establishment. It was, I believe, the custom of these young
scoundrels to remain at one or other of the two schools on the
understanding that the teacher gave them a retaining fee of so many
chocolates.... One rather felt, during 1919 and 1920, that the
Yugoslavs, in their willingness to take the hand of Greece, which had so
shamefully refused to act upon its obligations in the first half of the
War, were behaving as if Venizelos would henceforward be retained in
power by his countrymen. Should the Serbs find themselves hampered in
their use of the "Free Zone" at Salonica, a moment might arrive when
they and the Bulgars would, to their mutual advantage, make an
arrangement with regard to Salonica and her hinterland.

(_c_) THE BULGARIAN FRONTIER

There have been various modifications in the frontier line between
Serbia and Bulgaria. The Bulgars acknowledge that in the case of the
Struma salient, of the part near Vranja and of the villages on the bank
of the Timok, it was clearly for the purpose of safeguarding the
railways; and few people would be found to say that Serbia has been
other than modest in her demands. Compare the Italian position on the
Brenner with the Yugoslav frontier against Bulgaria and in the Baranja:
against Bulgars and Magyars the Yugoslavs only secure a sound defensive
frontier, whereas Italy obtains a capacity for the offensive again