C O N C L U S I O N

The interest of the American public for Macedonia has a seventy years old history. The facts show that, it arises as an important aspect of the mutual Bulgaro-American cultural connections and relations in the end of the first quarter of the 19-th century. After the partitioning of Macedonia from the free Bulgarian state, under the conditions of the 1878 Berlin Peace Treaty, the Americans residing in the Balkans continue to support the just thesis, that the newly created "Macedonian question" in its essence is a "Bulgarian question". Until the end of the Second World War, all Protestant missionaries, professors in "Robert College", American diplomats , scientists and journalists, having visited this part of the world, defend this position. For a century and a half, there have been written and published in the most influential periodical and daily American editions more than 15000 pages of printed text, inevitably proving the predominating Bulgarian ethnic image of the region Macedonia, which give strong support to the efforts for completion of the processes of national liberation and unification of the Bulgarian people.

In 1919, the ignoration of the "factor America ", in the postwar construction of the world and the partition of Macedonia by the 1919 Neuilly Peace Treaty, create a parallel negative attitude in Bulgarians and Americans towards the Versailles treaty system. On this basis, in the 20ies and the 30ies, a small but active "Macedono-Bulgarian lobby" is formed , acting mainly in USA and Canada.Till the end of World War II, it works actively for informing the international public opinion on the policy of systemic denationalization of the Bulgarians in Vardar and Aegean Macedonia. The measures taken by YKP and its leader J.B. Tito in the autumn of 1944, for the creation of the "Macedonian nation" in Republic of Macedonia, on an anti-Bulgarian basis, ignore completely what has been written by the experts on the "Macedonian question" in the United States, for the period since the 30-ies of the 19-th century till the 40-ies of the 20-th century. This fact ,too, proves the inconsistency of the "Macedonist policy". It proves that, it contradicts the objective historic truth. The policy of neo-Macedonism ignores completely the opinion of the impartial international observers on the Macedonian problem of a century's duration of no specific and prejudiced interests when forming their position on the topic discussed.

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