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Ide their mutual antagonisms and co-operated in a common cause. This
union and concord marked at least the beginning of political wisdom. And
it was vindicated, if ever any policy was vindicated, by the surprise
and splendor of the results. My hope for the Balkan nations is that they
may return to this path from which they were too easily diverted in
1913. They must learn, while asserting each its own interests and
advancing each its own welfare, to pay scrupulous regard to the rights
and just claims of others and to co-operate wisely for the common good
in a spirit of mutual confidence and good will. This high policy, as
expedient as it is sound, was to a considerable extent embodied in the
leadership of Venizelos and Pashitch and Gueshoff. And where there is a
leader with vision the people in the end will follow him. May the final
settlement of the European War put no unnecessary obstacle in the way of
the normal political development of all the Balkan Nations! J. G. S.
President's Office Cornell University July 13, 1916 _Postscript_. I
remarked in the foregoing Introduction, that Roumania would not abandon
her neutrality till fortune had declared more decisively for one or the
other group of belligerents. That was written seven weeks ago. And
within the last few days Roumania has joined the Allies and declared war
against Austria-Hungary. I also noted that the unstable equilibrium
which had been maintained in Greece between the party of King
Constantine and the party of Venizelos had already been upset to the
disadvantage of the former. Roumania's adhesion to the cause of the
Allies is bound to accelerate this movement. It would not be surprising
if Greece were any day now to follow the example of Roumania. Had Greece
in 1914 stood by Venizelos and joined the Allies the chances are that
Roumania would at that time have adopted the same course. But the
opposition of King Constantine delayed that consummation, di