E. Venizelos'un Yunanistan'ın İngiltere'ye olan savaş borcuna ilişkin muhtırası.

-6- against the Allies, but also from repaying the very advances made to them by Germany for the carrying out of war. In fact, according to article 261 of the Treaty of Versailles "L'Allemagne s'engage à transférer aux Puissances Alliées et associées toutes ses créances sur l'Autriche, la Bulgarie et la Turquie et notamment celles qui résultent ou résulteront pour elle de l'exécution des engagements qu'elle a pris envers ces Puissances pendant la guerre". And according to art. 62 of the Treaty of Lausanne"la Turquie reconnait le transfert de toutes les créances que l'Allemagne, l'Autriche la Bulgarie et la Hongrie possédaient contre elle conformément à l'article 261 du Traité de Versailles etc. Les autres Puissances contractantes conviennent de liberer la Turquie des dettes qu lui incombent de ces dettes". It is true that up to this time no similar measure has been taken as regards the other allies of Germany. But in the case of Bulgaria also, who by the Treaty of Neuilly has been obliged to pay for reparations 2,500,000,000 cold francs, 12.7% of which had been recognised as belong- ing to Greece by virtue of article 2 of the Spa decision of 1920, the Great Allies without even consulting us, took a measure three years ago reducing effectively the sum to be paid by her to 550,000,000. seeing that the payment of the remaining sum of 2,000,000,000 had been deferred for thirty years- And this while the possibility has never been considered that Bulgaria could be asked to pay the sum owed by her for war material and advances in cash made by Germany, which claim the latter has transferred to the Allies. It is therefore difficult to understand how while