Photo and copyright by H. C. White Cc. 

 MONASTERY OF HAGIA TRIAS (hOLY TRINITy), ON THE MARVELOUS METEORA ROCKS, 



NORTHERN GREECE 



is due the Balkan Federation. His was 

 the initiative that opened the negotia- 

 tions, and it was his controlHng pohtical 

 genius that shaped the entente in most of 

 its details. The powers of Europe and 

 its diplomats were staggered by the news 

 of his success. Though well warned by 

 frequent rumor during the year and a 

 half that the negotiations were in prog- 

 ress, they refused to think it possible 

 that two races who had dealt with each 

 other as ferociously as the Greeks and 



the Bulgars in Macedonia could be 

 brought into accord, no matter how 

 great the stake. 



Yet nothing was more obvious than 

 this, and from the moment that Venizelos 

 came to power in Greece and called to 

 his side that talented statesman, so well 

 known, from his service in the United 

 States as Minister of Greece, it was evi- 

 dent that the long-cherished ideal of 

 Balkan statesmen for an effective agree- 

 ment toward an amelioration of the lot 



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