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Christopher Birdwood Baron Thomson. Old Europe's Suicide; or, The Building of a Pyramid of Errors
Old Europe's Suicide; or, The Building of a Pyramid of Errors
Table of Contents
PREFACE
OLD EUROPE’S SUICIDE
CHAPTER I. A Day On The Danube
CHAPTER II. Belgrade—October, 1912. A VIEW FROM A WINDOW
CHAPTER III. The Battle of Kumanovo
CHAPTER IV. Macedonia—1912
CHAPTER V. Albania—1912–1913
CHAPTER VI. The Second Balkan War and the Treaty of Bucharest
CHAPTER VII. Two Men Who Died
I. FIRST MAN. A SIMPLE SOLDIER
II. SECOND MAN. A PEASANT
CHAPTER VIII “1914” Peace and War
CHAPTER IX. The Neutral Balkan States—1915
CHAPTER X. Sleeping Waters
CHAPTER XI. The Disaster in Rumania—1916
CHAPTER XII. The Russian Revolution and the Russo-Rumanian Offensive—1917
CHAPTER XIII. A Midnight Mass
CHAPTER XIV “Westerners” and “Easterners”
CHAPTER XV. The Peace Conference at Paris—1919
CHAPTER XVI. Looking Back and Forward
Footnote
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Christopher Birdwood Baron Thomson
An Account of Certain Events in Europe During the Period 1912–1919
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I was tired out, but I did not sleep well. I had been thinking about British policy in the Balkans before I fell asleep, and had strange dreams which were almost nightmares. It was all the fault of the ceiling; that cherub was so exactly like the diplomat and I dreamed he was telling the other one a secret, this explained the whispering, and that it was an important State secret, connected with my visit to Belgrade.
Who knows? The artist who had painted that hideous ceiling may have done so in a mood of irony. He may have chosen, as models for his cherubs, some well-known personages engaged in propping up a crazy structure known as “the balance of power in Europe.”
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