The Balkins: A Picture Of Peace, Not War

“It is hard to believe this rich pleasant farming country is the bleak-sounding Balkans. It is, though, and as you ride through it you can see how the love of the land can make men fight wars. It is a matter of land, of fields of corn and yellowing tobacco, of flocks of sheep and herds of cattle, of heaps of yellow pumpkins in the shocked corn, of beech groves and peat smoke from chimneys, a matter of mine and thine that is the cause of all just wars-and there can never be peace in the Balkans as long as one people holds the lands of another people-no matter what the political excuse may be.” - The Balkins: A Picture of Peace, Not War-October 16, 1922