Leading Articles in the Reviews. 



THE BALKANS FOR THE BALKAN ^:^j:Z^:::^J^:t^ 'xhl tt 



JNAllUiNb. having become strong enough to maintain 

 To the Correspondant of November loth autonomous political life independently of the 

 M. Andre Ch^radame contributes one of his Government of Russia, Neo-Slavism is based on 

 interesting and illuminating articles on the Near Slav solidarity, and the material and moral sup- 

 East, his subject being the War in the Balkans port of the different groups comprising it acts as 

 and Austrian Intervention. an eftective check to Germanism, which has been 

 THE QUESTION OF QUESTIONS. Working SO long to compromise the Slav coun- 

 . f . ,• i J <. tries. Thus the tendency of Neo-blavism is to 

 As to the question of mtervention, he does not ^^^^^^.^^ ^^ ^ common end the aims of the 

 think Russia will take any action unless Rou- ^^ Austria-Hungary, 

 mama and Austria, separately or conjointly, ,^o.,„ 

 should intervene by arms to rob the Allied States ^"^ 'jermany. 

 of the fruits of their miUtary successes. But SLAV leaning to triple entente. 



the Question of Austrian intervention is of capital . • , . u .u r- tvt 



. "-^"^ , A • u J ^^ It is Dointed out how the German-Magyar 



importance. Is Austria-Hungary prepared to ^"^ ''' puniicu kju kj r 



^ o-r .juf-* 4^ sunremacv has pursued a foreign policy more 



prevent Servia from extending her territory to- ^^[^j^'^'^^y "-^^ F s f j 



J ..u A^ • fvo A/I rv,Arorin,-,-,p r^^K^c ^"d morc contrary to the will of the great 



wards the Adriatic? M. uneradame replies, . . u • . • ..u c- • t-u„ 



.,^ •, ?, 1 A , •. „ Vv,K^^ maiority of Slav subjects in the Empire. Ihe 



" Certainly not, and proceeds to cite a number , J"^ '•> J u »u ci u-i ^r.A 



of reasons, internal and external, which will in- Slavs, on the whole, are both Slavophil and 



cline the Government to act with the extremest Russophil, and the majority are also Francophil, 



J Tu u- f u .^ 1 4^ -^f^^^ro^^:^^ u^ and they would like to see the Austrian Govern- 



prudence. The chief obstacle to intervention, he " .J . . .. u- u • v. ^ 



^ • .1 • 1 •. .^- • ^u A »_ ment inaugurate a foreign policy, which, without 



states, is the internal situation in the Austro- "'^•\' mciugu ^t^ s k /; ' 



TT • XT • % If v.,^ ^„f ^f t^u^ putting: itself into direct opposition to Germany, 



Hungarian Empire itself, arising out ot the ^ , ,° , . ., , J^^ • \ 



^. f f ,1 ,'• 1 *• r«--^ ^^r>, would make it possible to entertain more and 



conscious force of the multiple nationalities com- "^ ^ , ^ . •,, , t- • i r- . .. 



.1, * 1 -^i^t c^f^f« ^ oW,.^f;^^ r.r^f more cordial relations with the 1 riple Entente, 



posing the great polyglot State, a situation not r ^- , .u ci -u 



re • Ti r J • 4U \nr ,. In course of time, however, the Slavs will 



yet sufficiently realised in the West. ^.n ^-yj ^ ^ , . ^ ' . ^. . , 



-' ■' - manage to exercise an influence on Austria s 



A polyglot state. foreign policy more proportionate to their num- 



The total population of Austria-Hungary is bers, and an additional point in their favour is 



shown to be 50 millions, composed of Germans, that they are much more prolific than the 



Magyars, Latins. Slavs, and Semites. In round Germans and Magyars. Already, indeed, the 



numbers the Germans amount to 12 millions and political evolution of the Slav masses is reducing 



the Magyars 9 millions. A small minority of considerably the practical importance of the 



Magyars in Hungary — about half a million of Austro-Hungarian Alliance with Germany, and 



nobles, landowners, etc.— exercise in the country ^he Habsburg dynasty is now obliged to take 



political supremacy at the expense both of the into account the sentiments of its Slav subjects, 

 great working mass of Magyars and the Slav 



and Latin nationalities, and this minority sup- what Austria would risk by intervention. 



ports the political and mihtary alliance of At this moment the 23,000,000 Slavs, by reason 



Austria-Hungary and Germany. But this Mag- ^f ^j^^j^ Slavophil tendencies, are almost unani- 



yar supremacy is being seriously menaced not ^^^^ -^^ ^^^-^^ hostility to any armed intervention 



only by the Slavs and Latins of Hungary, but ^f Austria-Hungary which would have as its 



by a social movement among the Magyars them- ^^-^^^^ ^^^ deprivation of the Slavs of the Bal- 



selves. Thus there is a tendency for the great j^^^^^ ^f ^^^ results of their victories. Nearly 



mass of Magyars to join forces with the one-half of the Austro-Hungarian Armv is com- 



oppressed Slavs and Latins. The Italians and ^^^^^ ^f 5,3^ soldiers and one-twelfth' of Latin 



the Roumanians who represent the Latins separatists, and it is unlikelv that under such 



number three-quarters of a million and 3^ mil- conditions Austria would care to risk interven- 



hons respectively, and both nationalities are ^j^^^ ^^ ^^^^^ against the victorious Balkan 



separatists. The Slavs, composed of Czechs, States. Another consideration of interest 



Poles, Ruthenians, Slovenians, Serbo-Croats, counsels abstention on the part of Austria. Any 



and Slovaks, amount together to 23 millions, expansion of the Empire towards Salonika would 



and the Semites (anti-Slavs) to ih millions. inevitably introduce into it new masses of Slavs,. 



neo-slavism. and consequently many Austrian-Germans are 



The writer distinguishes between Pan-Slav- not partisans of new acquisitions in the South. 



^Sl ism, which desired to unite all the Slav countries External causes also will incline Austria not to 



