The bitter fruits of the policy of Magyarization are now ripening.  The oppressed Rumanes look not toward Austria, as in the old days when their great Bishop Siaguna made them a stanch prop of the Hapsburg dynasty, but across the Carpathians to Bucharest; the Serbo-Croatians of Hungary, Croatia-Slavonia, and Dalmatia, whose economic and political development the Magyars have deliberately hampered, turn their eyes no longer, as in the days of Jellatchich, toward Vienna, but await wistfully the coming of the Serbian liberators; the Ruthenes of the northeast hear the tramp of the Russian armies; the Slovaks of the northwest watch with dull expectancy for the moment when, united with their Slovak kinsmen of Moravia and their cousins, the Czechs of Bohemia, they shall form part of an autonomous Slav province stretching from the Elbe to the Danube.  For the Magyars, who have thrown to the winds the wisdom of the wisest men, fate may reserve the possession of the fertile and well-watered Central Hungarian plain.  There they may thrive in modesty and rue at their leisure the folly of having sacrificed their chance of national greatness to the vain pursuit of the “Magyar State Idea” under the demoralizing influence of Austro-German imperialism.

THE WATCHERS OF THE TROAD

By HARRY LYMAN KOOPMAN

    Where Ilium’s towers once rose and stretched her plain,
      What forms, beneath the late moon’s doubtful beam,
      Half living, half of moonlit vapor, seem? 
    Surely here stand apart the kingly twain,
    Here Ajax looms, and Hector grasps the rein,
      Here Helen’s fatal beauty darts a gleam,
      Andromache’s love here shines o’er death supreme. 
    To them, while wave-borne thunders roll amain
    From Samos unto Ida, Calchas, seer
      Of all that shall be, speaks:  “Not the world’s end
    Is this, but end of our old world of strife,
      Which, lasting until now, shall perish here. 
    Henceforth shall men strive but as friend and friend
      Out of this death to rear a new world’s life.”

The Union of Central Europe

An Argument in Favor of a Union of the States Now Allied With Germany

By Franz von Liszt

Professor Franz von Liszt, author of the following article, is Director of the Criminal Law Seminar of the University of Berlin, and is regarded as one of the leading experts on criminal law in Germany.  The article was published in the Neue Badische Landes-Zeitung of Mannheim, and evoked bitter criticism from many imperialistic quarters in the German press.

When new directions of development are first taken in history, it usually requires the lapse of several decades before we understand them in their true importance, and it takes much longer before proper terms describing them are adopted generally.  In the interim, misconceptions of all kinds are the necessary consequence of clouded perception and confused terminology, especially when, for purposes of party politics, there figures in a greater or less degree a certain unwillingness to understand.