Nations can only crawl to knowledge and to
the possessions of riches, for politics to the simple are like "drinks"
to the savage and equally deadly in effect.
[Illustration: A WINE MARKET IN USKUB.]
Can the problem ever be resolved? Can Serbia with half her manhood wiped
out stand against her jealous neighbours? The creation of a lot of
small states on republican principles seems a far-fetched idea, and yet
it seems the best, especially if the menace of Turkey were removed, for
there is little doubt that Turkey, rearmed by the German, might make one
more effort to regain her lost territory under conditions vastly
different from those which ruled in the Balkan conflict. Macedonia,
Albania, and what is now Turkey in Europe, each made self-governing
under the shield of the Alliance--why not?--and Serbia as compensation
allowed to expand towards the north into territories which are wholly
Serb in nationality and in feeling.
We went through the pot market, whose orange earthenware was glowing in
the sun, and came upon an old house with such a wonderful ultramarine
courtyard that we went in to look.
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