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I9I2] HARTWIG’S CHARACTERISTICS 51
exclusion of Austria, or with the latter to the exclusion
of Germany—here was a policy doomed to failure and,
what is more, which might become extremely dangerous
at any moment!
I knew the character and the opinions of my colleague
of Belgrade long before I was appointed to Sofia. I
knew he was as popular in Bulgaria as he was in Serbia,
that he had much influence and commanded authentic
sources for private information. I was therefore
prepared beforehand to learn that when the Serbo-Bulgarian
negotiations began, Hartwig would wish to play a
prominent part in them. Personally I saw no objection
to this, and I should have been glad if my colleague had
been successful in certain cases in obtaining from the
Bulgarians from afar what I should not have been able
to obtain from them on the spot. But the continuation
of the negotiations proved that whenever it was a
question of national claims, all restraining action became
difficult in Belgrade, impossible in Sofia.
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