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Show BGSlLI Appreciate Aid ' of America! Even Though Wishes Were Overruled at Paris. 1 SOFIA, Bulgaria. June Bulgaria Bul-garia must have a territorial outlet on the Aegean sea, Ivan E. Gueshoff, ono of Bulgaria's most brilliant Slavonian Slavo-nian and formerly prime minister, now a deputy of parliament, has told Tho Associated Press correspondent, j "A mere economic outlet will bo o no use to her and sho has catergori-cally catergori-cally refused and will refuse, to ac- cept it," he went on. A glance at the; map of the Balkan peninsula will prove that a port on the Aegean is a matter of far more vital Importance lo Bulgaria than Fiumo Is to Jugo-j Slavla. j . Appreciate American Aid. "Wo know." continued M. Gucshoir, "that on the question of ethnic and territorial claims of Bulgaria, tho United States was over-ruled at the peaco conference. We are novorthoicsa genuinely grateful to all those Americans Amer-icans who. In the commissions appointed ap-pointed to study the questions of Thrace and the northern and western frontiers of Bulgaria, gave conclusions In our favor. "Wc now Implore tho genorous with momentous consequences conse-quences to Bulgaria and to the peaco of tho whole Balkan peninsula." Bulgaria ceded western Thraco under un-der the peace treaty and tho peace conference awarded it to Greece. This cut Bulgaria off from Its former port of Dedcagatch, on the Aegean sea; but tho allies promised her the league of nations would givo her an outlet on tho Aegean. The former prime minister, who was educated in England and who Is icau-er icau-er of tho strong Nationalist party, then discussed what ho tormcd "the allies' flagrant betrayal of the principle ui nationality." "We were stunned," said M. Gueshoff, "when wc heard tnat Bulgaria condemned to lose districts tho Bulgarian character of which was never contested and that while for certain disputed German regions tho plebiscite was pormittcd. the prlnciplo of self-determination was refused tne Bulgarian populations which were awarded to Serbia and Greece. Betrayed Into War. "In ojder to explain this flagrant betrayal of the principlo of nationality," national-ity," at. Gueshoff continued, "It waa alleged that tho Bulgarians deserved to be punished, first, because they had fought against tho Entonto and thou because they had committed atrocities. atro-cities. Tho Bulgarian pcoplo wero against the war. A faithless king had betrayed them Into it. "Had tho entente landed troops ut Salonlkl boforc tho Bulgarian mobilization mobili-zation of 1915, a3 I then insisted, had Bulgaria the geographical situation of Greece, the Bulgarians would have done what the Greeks did in 1917 and Bulgaria would never luivo gone with tho central empires." jU. Gueshoff concluded tho Interview Inter-view with a reference to tho alleged Bulgarian atrocltlos. "As president of the Bulgarian Jtcd Cross society," he said, "In January, 1919. 1 proposed that an International commission should inquire into these so-called atrocities at-rocities and those committed by the othor Balkan states. But the conference confer-ence of Paris had decided to throttle Bulgaria without giving her tho opportunity op-portunity of defending herself," oo |