Identifier: inheartofgermani00vaka (find matches)
Title: In the heart of German intrigue
Year: 1918 (1910s)
Authors: Vaka, Demetra, 1877-1946
Subjects: Neutrality -- Greece World War, 1914-1918 -- Greece Greece -- Politics and government
Publisher: Boston, New York, Houghton Mifflin company
Contributing Library: University of Massachusetts, Boston
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Massachusetts, Boston

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ur policy. But Venizelos would notbelieve him. It was at the end of this conference thatMr. Venizelos telegraphed to the Serbian PrimeMinister, Mr. Pachitch, that it would be bestfor Greece to remain neutral for the moment;since if she went to the help of Serbia againstAustria, she would leave the rear of both of themopen to Bulgaria, who could cut off their line ofcommunication with Salonica, which port wasSerbias only source of supplies. If, however,Bulgaria should fall on Serbia, then Greece wouldattack Bulgaria. Mr. Pachitch at once saw the wisdom of thiscourse, and confident that Russia would come tohis aid, preferred to have Greece remain neutral,furnish him with supplies, and keep Bulgaria incheck. The fears of Mr. Repoulis that there was anactive Germanophile party in Greece was sharedby none of his colleagues. Indeed, they regardedhis attitude as that of an ultra-suspicious man.Mr. Politis, Director of Foreign Affairs duringthese trying times, and later Minister of Foreign 82
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NIKOLA P. PACHITCHPRIME MINISTER OF SERBIA FACE TO FACE WITH CONSTANTINE Affairs in New Greece, told me in Salonicathat for a long time Mr. Repoulis was actuallyisolated, none of the others being willing to be-lieve that the palace could go against the inter-ests of the nation for its private ends. Mr.Politis added: I used to think that Repoulissubordinated everything to the interests of theparty. Alas! too late we realized that Repoulisonly thought of the interests of his country —and that he was justified in all his suspicions.* The reader can easily see how Dr. Streit in hisadmirably concocted version gave us nine tenthsof the truth, suppressing the other tenth for thegood of the Royalist Party. Here is anotherinstance in which he showed his skill: — Dr. Streit told us that when the war was twoweeks old the Russian Minister, Prince Demi-doff, came to the Foreign Office, and in thecourse of the conversation said to him: — Why dont you Greeks come out of yourneutrality and figh

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