Makedonien als Lebensthema:: Henry Noël Brailsford

Abstract

The British journalist and Labour politician Henry Noël Brailsford was probably the most knowledgeable member of the Carnegie Commission to the Balkans of 1913. Between 1897 and 1904, he had spent several months in Greece as well as in Ottoman Macedonia, and in 1906 he published his widely read book Macedonia. Its Races and Their Future. Accordingly, a substantial part of the commission’s report of 1914 was written by him. In Serbia and Greece, he was accused of pro-Bulgarian leanings, and indeed in World War I he opted for an incorporation of the Macedonian region into the Kingdom of Bulgaria. During World War II, however, Brailsford developed sympathies for Tito and supported his post-war project of founding a new Macedonian nation.