The Struggle of the Macedonian People for a Nation State by Blazhe Ristovski, Macedonian Review, Volume XIV, Number 2,1984. [b]"…..Milliukov [Russian statesman, politician, academic and journalist] wrote further on: "The people who had struggled all their lives for the Macedonian cause, could not possibly have accepted the facts as final nor, when seeing their ideals going into the archives, could have felt indifferent." At the banquet given by the Bulgarian General Todorov, brave Yanй Sandanski raised a glass and made the following toast: "I drink to the health of the new Macedonian state". At that moment all Bulgarian officers drew their swards threatening that "heads will be chopped off and tongues will be cut out; that is not what Bulgarian blood has been shed for".[/b] ----------------------- "….When the war [First Balkan War] had already started, Chupovski and Dimov had an audience with Count V. P. Mencherski, who printed the following in his paper Гражданинъ of October 28th, 1912: "It appears the poor Macedonian people can expect from the victories of the allied Slavonic armies something that may turn out to be even worse than their present state, that is the division of Macedonia between Bulgaria, Serbia, and Montenegro, and the destruction of the Macedonian nation. While Macedonia was under Turkish tyranny, she had the hope of regaining her independence; now, however, if Macedonia is divided between other Slavonic countries, under the pretext of liberation from the Turks, she will either have to give up her independence forever or defend it against Slavonic conquerors with her own blood." (At the time the possibility of Greece demanding a share of Macedonian territory was not even considered). The situation was sufficiently alarming for the Macedonian people. Therefore, Dr. G. Konstantinovich hurried to the Montenegrin-Turkish front, K. Misirkov to South Macedonia, and D. Chupovski undertook the task of campaigning among the Macedonian emigrants in Bulgaria and of securing safe ground in Macedonia. By the end of November 1912, the later had arrived in Sofia and at the beginning of December he visited Skopje and Veles, where, together with P. Poparsov, B. Rizov, A. Martulkov, M. Popyordanov, A. Karobar and others he organized a pan-Macedonian conference "in order to set up a general plan for the liberation of Macedonia", "with the purpose of preventing the division of Macedonia". Pressurised by the occupational allied armies however, D. Chupovski was obliged to leave Macedonia immediately taking along a letter authorizing him to represent Macedonian national interests in Europe. The conquerors, nonetheless, would not hear of a compromise. J. Ivanov, a Bulgarian professor in Salonica, openly warned R. Rizov and P. Shatev: "My boy, for that word (autonomy) we cut tongues out! The Bulgarian people do not fight, they do not shed their blood, so that you should be asking for autonomy! Let me tell you that because of that autonomy, we have included twenty thousand informants in the army! Heads will fall!" The Russian statesman, politician, academic and journalist, P. Milliukov, visited Salonica at the time and wrote about the isolation of the Macedonians: "At the moment when the complex Macedonian knot was being cut by force, it was best done without any witnesses." He further stated that Macedonian representatives had presented the Bul-garian heir to the throne, Prince Boris, with "written protests" demanding a "united autonomous Macedonia". These "protests", however, have been kept until the present day in the Archives of Sofia as top secret documents. Milliukov wrote further on: "The people who had struggled all their lives for the Macedonian cause, could not possibly have accepted the facts as final nor, when seeing their ideals going into the archives, could have felt indifferent." At the banquet given by the Bulgarian General Todorov, brave Yanй Sandanski raised a glass and made the following toast: "I drink to the health of the new Macedonian state". At that moment all Bulgarian officers drew their swards threatening that "heads will be chopped off and tongues will be cut out; that is not what Bulgarian blood has been shed for". The same thing was expe-rienced by A. Ketskarov, an old teacher and revolutionary from Ohrid, who wrote a letter to the Bulgarian government asking that "Bulgaria should give autonomy to Macedonia". In answer he was threatened "not to show his teeth ever again in this matter or he will be sent to the dungeons of Kurt Bunar".

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