mber in 1913, "for it is impossible to include in the
Greek State all those parts where Greeks have lived; we ought to be
modest and contented with what is most righteous and attainable; we
ought not to let ourselves be carried away by our imagination."

(_d_) THE ROUMANIAN FRONTIER

THE STATE OF THE ROUMANIANS IN EASTERN SERBIA

A new frontier between Yugoslavia and Roumania has been drawn by the
Allied Powers in the Banat. But before we consider its merits and
absurdities we must examine the Serbo-Roumanian question in the several
departments of eastern Serbia. During 1919 one heard a good deal, in
Bucharest and in Paris, of the pitiful Roumanians whom the Serbs had
always deprived of their own national schools and churches. It was
claimed, chiefly by a certain Dr. Athanasius Popovitch, that the
Roumanians in Serbia were longing for the day of their redemption. On
March 8, 1919, two deputations of Roumanians from the Timok and from
Macedonia, who had lately arrived in Paris in order to plead before the
Conference, presented themselves to the Roumanian colony at 114 Avenue
des Champs-Elysees. We are told that in consequence of their moving
narrative, and on account of the loud appeal made by them to all their
free brothers, the Roumanian colony founded, with great enthusiasm, a
national league for their delivery. The Vice-President of the league was
announced to be Dr. Athanasius Popovici. In a pamphlet called _Les
Roumains de Serbie_ (Paris, 1919), Dr. Draghicesco, a Roumanian Senator,
denounces the Serb authorities for having obliged Dr. Athanasius, while
he was a schoolboy, to change his surname into the purely Serbian one of
Popovitch. "Not being able to endure this regime of violence," we are
informed, "he expatriated himself and established himself in Roumania."
But if Dr. Athanasius felt so strongly with regard to his name when he
was a mere schoolboy, one is puzzled to understand why, being an adult
and a pamphleteer in 1919, he should be hesitating between Popovitch,
which is Serbian, and Popovici, which is Roumanian. The Senator does not
seem to be well informed as to the early years of Dr. Athanasius, who so
far from expatriating himself as an indignant schoolboy, remained in
Serbia, where he went through five classes of the gymnasium in Belgrade,
after which he studied theology in the same town, with a view to
succeeding his father, who was a priest at Du[vs]anovac in eastern
Serbia. Later on Athanasius