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

 fini — rien nest fini" (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 Schiicking,^ 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^ 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 

 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 back by 

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

 dispersed. 



2 See Chapter xliv, page 514. 



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