The Balkans 



way for new injustices and laying the foundation of new 

 revenges. Unrest and hatred are largely the result of past 

 injustice. For this there are two lines of remedy either to 

 remove the original cause, or to heal it by fresh conciliation. 

 Balkan governments in general have tried neither the one nor 

 the other. Should they do so, the results would be surprising. 

 With equality before the law and interchangeable citizenship, 

 questions of boundary and allegiance would have little impor- 

 tance. 



As a matter of fact, absolute justice in frontier rearrangements 

 is impossible in districts as confused as Macedonia, but the 

 rights of the people should be everywhere paramount to the 

 rights of states. 



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