Word: bulgarias
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Speakers from a score of countries appealed at Des Moines to the students of Canada and America to aid in the work of missions abroad. Cablegrams from Hungary, and Cairo, and Central Africa, from the Russian student prisoners, from Buenos Ayres and Shanghai and Bulgaria were received on New Year's day and read from the platform by John R. Mott, the Chairman of the Conference--cable grams from men in the field, greeting the Conference and reiterating the plea for help. The opening speakers outlined the great progress of the Student Volunteer Movement, and showed by word and picture...
...danger of America's becoming involved in the Balkan troubles as Turkey in Europe is now so small as to occasion no disputes. All the European nations, the Great Powers included, are in favor of an American mandate and would take it themselves were they not already exhausted. Bulgaria, who in the past has been Turkey's strongest enemy, is particularly friendly to the United States as is evidenced by her refusal to declare war on us at the time of our entry, despite Germany's continued protests that she should...
...Grecian blood with the mother country. This would include Northern Epirus, Thrace, Westren Asia Minor, and the islands of the Dodecanese. Greece makes no claim to the territory of the hundreds of thousands of Greeks in Russia, Roumania, and elsewhere. Dr. Kalopothakes discussed the past and present wrongs which Bulgaria, Germany's ally, had done to the Balkans and to Greece, and mentioned the atrocities committed by that country...
...slight numerical superiority of particular races it would be merely renewing the old Balkan problems on a larger scale. At Berlin in 1878 the powers of Europe attempted to make national divisions in the Balkans; but the new nations fell under the control of men like Ferdinand of Bulgaria, and wars continued to arise in that section to threaten and finally overthrow the peace of Europe...
...today we learn that Rumania has bowed before the Kaiser, that Dobrudja has been ceded to the Central Powers, and that German and Turkish troops press on along the Black Sea to the very borders of Persia. Rumania a vassal of Austria, Bulgaria a willing tool, and vast territories wrung from Russia complete a brief but overwhelming accomplishment. The German tide, which we believed to be receding, has reached its highest flood. The Allies futilely hammer on the Western Front and their enemies reap whole nations in a seemingly irresistible advance. The world, as seen from our shores, presents...