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miscreants, said : " Ce sont des sauvages. Ce nest point 

 fini- - rien nestfini" (They are savages. It is by no 

 means finished; nothing is finished). 



Atrocities committed by whatever side during the 

 second Balkan war were justly and accurately dis- 

 cussed by the Carnegie ' Balkan Commission of 

 Inquiry" of 1913. Going over much of the same 

 ground at this time (six months later) I was able to 

 verify many of the statements and conclusions of the 

 commission. This consisted of the following: 



Austria: Dr. Josef Redlich, professor of Public Law, University 

 of Vienna. 



France: Baron d'Estournelles de Constant, Senator; 



Justin Godart, jurist and member of Chamber of Deputies. 



Germany: Dr. Walter Schucking, 1 professor of Law, University 

 of Marburg. 



Great Britain: Francis W. Hirst, editor of The Economist; 

 Henry Noel Brailsford, journalist. 



Russia: Dr. Paul Miliukov, professor in University of Moscow, 

 member of Duma. 



United States: Dr. Samuel T. Dutton, professor of Education, 

 Columbia University. 



Valentine Williams 2 defines a commission as "a 

 costly way of finding out what everybody knows. " 

 He said to me: "The atrocities were not deliberate; Certain 

 the armies were out of range of the press, and a extenua - 

 year of war had entirely cut off the soldiers from 

 public opinion." A Bulgarian officer is quoted as 

 saying: 'The Greeks kill and we kill. We follow 

 with bitter hearts still more bitter orders!" On the 



1 Schiicking proceeded no farther than Belgrade,where he was turned backby 

 the false statement that the commission, finding its task impossible, had already 

 dispersed. 



2 See Chapter XLIV, page 514. 



