Even now, while the campaign is still undecided, there are
rumours of a project of fiscal unity, extending over the entire Balkan
lands, and further of a constitutional union in imitation of the German
Empire. That is perhaps only a political straw blown by the storm, but
it is not possible to dismiss the reflection that the Balkan States
leagued together command a military strength with which the Great Powers
will have to reckon . . . The people who have poured out their blood on
the battlefields and sacrificed the available armed men of an entire
generation in order to encompass a union with their kinsfolk will not
remain any longer in an attitude of dependence on the Great Powers or on
Russia, but will go their own ways . . . The blood that has been poured
forth to-day gives for the first time a genuine tone to the purple of the
Balkan Kings. The Great Powers cannot overlook the fact that a people
that has tasted victory will not let itself be driven back again within
its former limits. Turkey has lost to-day not only Kirk Kilisseh and
Kumanovo, but Macedonia also."
Luitpold Wolkenstein drank his coffee, but the flavour had somehow gone
out of it.
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