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roal success, however, has been un design, has dismissed the men who stood for
German Magyar ascendancy evicted, if the tunnel had been available, Still, ed. He has provided the extremer see from the Foreign Office sich unclean, all things considered, the mostponement of tions of Allied opinion with a battle-cry, personalities as Baron Forgach, and the scheme has not been without its ad- and raised a formidable obstacle to the brought to power men who stood for the vantages. When it was first mooted,
afe Archduke's ideas.
steam would have been necessary for the peace which Germany now desires. It is
movement of the trains. To day electri city constitutes the ideal propelling force, a somewhat paradoxical fate, for Dr. All this, the reader may object, is in- and the continguity of the Kentish coal- Naumann is, and was, a Moderate, interesting and promising as an internal field should ensure an adequate supply at
Austrian event; but how does it affect low cost.
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We have seen what can be the sense tha; he opposed the cruder.
Central Europe and Austro-German accomplished by this agent in operating schemes of conquest and annexation fav relations? Those who have read Herr the heaviest descriptious of main line
has superseded ourou by the bussian industrialists. Naumsan's book will not be at a lossway traffic Electricity Ho had conceived & subtler way of exor the answer. His argument, addressed its old-established rival for working tracting bucps from the way. Gerto Austria, was in effect tiris: You of the greatest tunnels of the world, name many nerd take no territory; it would must enter Central Europe or perish.ly those which pentrate the Alps and the suffice for her that she should repeat If you refuse, or allow the German great mountain chains of the United on a vaster scale the Prussian perfor. alliance to be weakened, who will save States. More recently the clectrification marice of 1870. Then Frussin conquered you from Pan-Slavian Russin would of the four hundred and forty miles of immedinely destroy you." On one as the Chicago, Milwaukee, and Pacific Rail- Gornian States in the Empire. Once sumption this argument is sound. The way traversing the difficult country of the more, in this war, she would conquer her assumption is that the Slavs of Austria Rockies offers comprehensive data for the problems involved. Allies by forging out of the comradeship Hungary remain as discontented in the solution of the intricate
The Channel Tunnel, as at present con- of the battlefield a consolidated Central future as all but Poles were in the past. Europe under German leadership. The Given their discontent, only German rash proclamation of this scheute has for protection could ward off Pan-Slavism templated, will be about thirty-one miles its result an echo in Allied countries That is the reasoning which made this in length, and the tracks will be laid in which declares that, even if Germany wor, and it is the only reasoning which separate tunnels, somewhat after the
Each tunnel will have a clear interosl gains nothing nay, even if she loses can make Central Europe" The late ten of the tube railways of London. much she will still, by this consolida Archduke and auther point of view diameter of eighteen feet, and will he at tion, have made herself permanent His ambition was to make the Slava sa minimum depth of one hundred and menace to the world. The conclusion is much at home under the Hapsburgs that fifty feet below the ten-bed. Presumably drawn, consequently, that the Allies must the danger from the Enss might ho shuttle working will be practised, with fight to the bitter end, bent on la mured. It was not an impossible dream cross-overs and side-switches a certain in- victorie integrale, a phrase which means Thess Slave nearly all belong to the tervals to permit express trains to pass necessary. From the the dismemberment of Austria Hungary West by culture and religion, and would slower trains and Turkey and the isolation and crush. prefer the general social structure of engineering point of view the project The pre ing of Bulgaria, The power of one Austria to a more Eastern civilization offers no pronounced difficulties. talented and emotional literary man to One thing stood in the way the theory liminary soundings indicate that the begot an answering fanaticism in others of Dualis, by which German and Mag- tunnel would run through solid chalk, has seldom been illustrated so completely vare support each other in order to hold which would probably prove to be free since the days of Burkol sa tin check the Slays of the two halves of from faults. Boring would be carried out the Monarchy How precisely the late by means of the Greathead shield, under Archduks meant to go to work we do compressed air, and the circular bore, as not know, and still lees do we know what excavated, would be lived with steel plates his successor contemplates. One expecta with a grouting between the plates and tion seems to be generally held that be the chalk while the plates themselvess ventilation and greater security against will create a big South Slav State in would be lined with cement. Better cluding all the Serbs and Croats, and fire will both be assured by the adoption perhaps the Slovenes of the Monarchy of electric working. At an average rate some even suggest that it will have the of forty-six miles per hour the passage Atatus of a subordinate kingdom.
39 83
GERMAN MAGYAR ASCENDANCY INSECURE.
On the other hand, he is said to
would be accomplished in about forty minutes, but there is no reason why higher speeds should not be reached under the conditions that will obtain,
At the Bri
At this stago it is time to remind ourselves that Dr. Naumann is not the German Chancellor, but increly a bril liant and popular thinker whose dreams are far from realization to day. One might suppose, from the preamble to the Paris Resolutions that the Central Empires had already concluded en economic alliance and raised a threaten ing tariff against the rest of the worl In point of fact, none of their statesmen has publicly adopted the programme, and nothing has publicly happened to hesitate about carrying out the late tish end the tunnel would be gained further its realization save the meeting Emperor's grant of some similar status through a deep valley which would render ip conference of certain delegates from to Galicia. The Poles were contented as the question of approach a simple under- commercial associations, who seem, from things were, because not only did they taking, as only an easy gradient would be the published reports, to have been fur enjoy provincial Home Rule, but exer involved while on the French side this cised considerable power in the Reich subterranean ng well as submarine passage from unanimous. The only conditionat at Vienna To cut them off from would einerge at a potut some four miles under which Centre Europe oconomic League will certainly be achiev Austria would make the Germans too inland, so that the entrance may not be ed will be the enforcement of the Paris absolute in their dealings with the exposed to the dangers of hothardment by boycott, If we, without waiting for the Czechs unless Bohemia should receive a Laubmarines, enemy to form his league proceed to similar status. So, too, the exolusion of The engineers anticipate that the topuel exclude and penalize his trade, he must, the South Slays from Hungary, though would be completed within five years, in self-defence, retaliate, and seek what a blessing to them, would injure the pro- since there is no reason to suppose that compensations he can find by consolidat spects of the other non-Magyar races, the unexpected would assume abnormal
while it ing his own internal market. Short of especially the Sloyaks and the Rou-proportions, the formation of the chalk not anticipated that water will prove ex- this, the course of evenly since Dr. Naumanians-unless these also were liberat being comparatively regular,
troublesome. The construc tion of the not tended to popularize his schemes, fral solution can be found short of cent
Contral Fizopo has had a painful complete federalism the solution tower would turn to prestable use a vast experience of economic isolation, and which even Francis Joseph leaned for a quantity of plant and material already Prussia's Allies of 1017 are far from time, in the distant days before the shipped cross the Chating, while the find- feeling the inter quity and the outward Austro-Prussian War and the triumphing of employment for soare thousands of content which led her Allies of 1970 to of German ascendancy. It would be rash skilled uavvies would be a bontribution accept Prussian leadership,
to conclude that the young Emperor Kar towards the solution of the post-far tacour centemplates anything so bold as this, problem. THE POLITICAL UPHEAVAL IN VIENNA, or to suppose that even a very strong The provision of a submarine connect. An authentic account of what has hap man could carry out such revolutioning-link would be a decided stimulus to pened in Vicana since the murder of amid war. The personal equation of Anglo-Continental trafic, as there would Count Staergk and the death of the the Emperor is, RG yet, an unknown he a complete avoidance of the delay in Emperor, Francis Joseph would enable factor in a desperately complex problem, dental to transhipment at the ports. as to form an opinion on the prospects What we may say tentatively, however, The enthusiastic advocates of the enter of Central Europe. As it is, we know is this The German Magyar ascendancy prise have discussed the possibility only the bare events, and we mus futer is no longer secure, and some, at least, running through-tring between the Bri-- pret then, as best we may, with the aid of the Slavs of both monarchier have a tish manufacturing centres and the remote of ramour and intelligent conjecture brighter prospect, before them. If they cities of Europe and Asia. But this is The known fact is that there has been can be rendered contented, the Dual a romantic dream, for there are differ in a few weeks s complete upheaval in Monarchy is no longer tied by the necesences in track gauge to be taken into con the political world of Vienna Stice sity of self-preservation to the Germansideration, the engineer not yet having the young Emperor came to the throne, Empire, Central Europe, even on the solved the problem of fitting rolling stuck universal wheel system capable of ooe Premier (Dr, von Korber) has been position side, is nut inevitable, dismissed, and another (Dr. von Spitzits ceonomic side it is well known that adapting itself to all the various gauges
in use upon the Continent. The altern muller) has failed to form a Ministry even the Magyars dreed the German tive to a tunnel beurath the Channel is Both of them are Germans, The Foreign commercial ascendancy-
ferry like those operating upon the Minister of the Dual Monarchy, Baron
great lakes of America. This scheme, it Burian a nominee of the Magyar.
With so many doubtful elements in may be mentioned, has many commercial Dictator, Tisza, has also fallen. The the problem, it is manifestly, mal to advocates, because the capital expenditure two men who have climbed to power adopt the position of those who say that would be considerably lower for an equal- (Count. Czernin as Foreign Minister and war must be protracted untily effective service-t'hambers', Journuri. Coint Clem Martinic as Austrian PreCentral Europe is destroyed by the mier) are, both of them, Czechs, and both dismemberment of Austria and Turkey. belong to the group, which worked for Central Europe, oven if Austria and very definite ends under the murdered Archduke Franz Ferdinand. We know, or can guess some of the questions at issue during these crises the calling of the Reichsrat, the status of Calacia, the future of the South Slavs, the periodical compromise (Ausgleich) with Hun gary, and the means of attaining an early peace.
mann's book was published bas certainly ed. In the long run, we doubt if any optional net immediately after the
A On with
Turkey survive, in a very doubtful cre- the definition of an international mini- tion It is doubtful for another reason. mum of commercial freedom. Bur will, In spite of Hars Naumann's eloquence, it may be objected, da military monaco the boon has met with a mixed reception will remain. It will not remain if the even in Germany. Experienced men of Berlin-Baghdad route the backbone of affairs, like Herr Rallin, who have grown Central Europe, is cut, in the military rich by oversead trade, at once perceived sense, by the restoration of Serbia und that if Germany were to erect & Customs the opening of the Turkish Strails. Union of her present Allies the reprisals Finally, what are we to make of the of the Entente would over balance any German Chancelor's own saying, that It is admitted that the initiative in the pain which she might derive from the inthe first condition of the creation of a nocent German overtures for peace come tonsive cultivation of the Central and League of Nations is the shandonment of From the Dual Monarchy It is said that Eastern markot Even Herr Naumann hustile coalitions. No doubt he was Austria, in the last stages of privation Bas himself seen the danger, and has ex-thinking of the Entente, but he is not so and at the end of her endurance, with plained, in a Reichstag speech that naives to suppose that one group can out actually contemplating a separate did not advocate a policy of challenge or remain, while the other is dissolved. peace, is trying to open separate con aggression, But, dearly, if Germany Count Bernstorf has repeated this condi- versations with Britain and France in were to receive tariff favours from her tion in his numerous talks with the order to prepare the basis to guess that present Allies she could not expect to American Press, and, presumably, there the Knieer's sudden departure from recover her old position in other markets. 29 some definite proposal behind it. How Vienna, on the eve of the old Emperor's The whole conception of the most to estimate wa do not yet know, but funeral, must have followed some sharp favoured nation clause would be des there are signe in the Germen: Chan- difference of opinion with the young troyed. She will always have in Aus cellor's rocaut speeches that lo stands Emperor. It is not easy to find one trin the advantage which proximity, to-day for an internationalism far in way certainly through this mass of fact good railways. a common language, and advance of the Central idea, based, and conjecture, but one indication pro close social ties give her, and to the as that was, on the premise that inter vides a clue. By his choice of Ministers development of these advantages no one nationalism & mirage. These teiden- the Emperor Karl has taken over the can object Central Europe would cies must be carefully and, indeed, tradition of his uncle, who fell become an economic danger only if it sccptically watched. One way of com- Serajero. What that tradition was is were a closely fenced, tariff-guarded bating Central Europe" is by blood- fairly well known
preserve for German trade. If that idea shed and dismemberment, which may never adopted an official policy is destroy Europe imalf in the process. dropped, we may hope, at the settlement, The other is by substituting to reach some general understanding for League of Nations for the two partial
(flontinued at font of nest column) groups--The Nation,
the late Archduke was opposed to Dualism and to all the machiols which Dualism had brought to the subject-races of his inheritance. He cultivated tho