
Under the intense pressure of the internal opposition and especially under the pressure of the former government, which denounce the Allied Treaty of 1913 between Serbia and Greece, the Greek parliament rejected the Journal. Nevertheless, Serbian emissaries were sent to Greek Macedonia, who, due to lavish promises for patronage against the outrage of the Greek authorities, succeeded in sending to the UN three petitions of villagers from the region of Kozhan, in which they insist on being recognized as “Serbian national minority” and therefore be permitted to open schools and churches where Serbian language would be spoken. For the Greek government it was not difficult to prove the absurdity of these claims and the Council of the UN rejected the “petitions”. At the same time the UN took drastic measures to quickly subdue the overt actions of the Belgrade emissaries and they were forced to turn to some secret, including revolutionist’s activities, which were also to fail.
However paradoxical it may sound, in the very beginning Belgrade embarked on its campaign in Greek Macedonia in cooperation with the Bulgarian government. The authorities on Sofia hoped that the actions of the Serb in defence of this population would protect it from force Hellenization. The sobering came when it became clear that the Serbian emissaries in Aegean Macedonia are calling out for minority rights not for the Slav population in general, but for the nonexistent Serbian national minority.
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