'The Days of a Man 1914 



Hard luck from Burgas on the Black Sea, where she found 43,000 

 Bulgarian refugees from Thrace, while at Varna 

 were many more, dispossessed on the annexation of 

 the southern Dobruja by Roumania. The latter had 

 also forced Bulgaria to refund all the taxes collected 

 in the Dobruja during the war period, and a Bulgarian 

 told me that if his country had been asked to offer up 

 the king as a sacrifice at the Treaty of Bucharest it 

 must have complied. ' ( Bulgaria had to accept what- 

 ever terms were offered," said another adding, how- 

 ever, that " while Roumania did wrong, any other 

 Balkan state would have done the same thing in her 

 place!" 



Camen The general feeling of antagonism against Roumania 

 was intense and largely justified. Eleanora, neverthe- 

 less, spoke in affectionate terms of Queen Elizabeth, 

 "Carmen Sylva," the gifted poetess, sponsor for 

 and joint translator of 'The Bard of the Dim- 

 bovitza." Referring to her sisterly help during the 

 second Balkan war, Eleanora said: "She was as 

 kind to me as one woman could be to another." 



She also expressed her gratitude for the admirable 

 work America had done for Bulgaria, especially in 

 educating the youth of her land in the missionary 

 schools, and the leading Bulgarian statesmen and 

 politicians at Robert College. She was then planning 

 to come to the United States to see President Wilson 

 and lecture in defense of her country. So far, how- 

 ever, she had been deterred by differences of opinion 

 on the part of self-constituted advance agents, as 

 well as by Greek threats of personal interference in 

 America if she attempted to carry out her plan. 



I saw no reason why she should not come and give 

 lectures, but urged that she arrange the matter as 



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