RELATIONS BETWEEN AUSTRIA AND HUNGARY 549 



To such complete national existence we have as good a right as 

 any nation on earth, not on grounds of formal legality only, but 

 because we are conscious of having creditably fulfilled our mis- 

 sion as a bulwark of Western civilization and of liberty. We don't 

 see that this mission is ended, nor do we see how it could be fulfilled, 

 should that organic force of our peculiar national mentality and 

 constitution be missing, should that force which stands unshaken 

 after trials before which stronger empires have fallen into dust, give 

 way to artificial combinations and mechanical contrivances. 



We are then only faithful to the supreme law of our destinies when 

 upholding the banner of national independence with unflinching 

 firmness of resolve. 



SHORT PAPER 



DR. BENJAMIN F. TRUEBLOOD, of Boston, contributed a paper to this Section 

 on " An International Advisory Congress." 



