ABSTRACT
In 1876, British opposition leader W. E. Gladstone published an influential pamphlet titled “The Bulgarian Horrors and the Question of the East.” He argued there that British support for Ottoman rule in the Balkans should be withdrawn. In 1897, as a private citizen, he wrote in a letter to the head of the Byron Society, posing the question “Why not Macedonia for Macedonians, as well as Bulgaria for Bulgarians and Servia for Servians?”
