The Vienna correspondent of the Times has a striking and
outspoken article on Southern Slav Nationalism in Monday's issue. The main argument may be thus summarized. If Austria-Hungary wishes to lay a sound basis for her Balkan policy, and to guard against possible complications, she must not be content with military action. " Sound political pre- paration in the South Slav world is more urgently required." Hitherto her policy has had the disastrous effect of exciting equal aversion from Hungary and Austria. The indecision and dissensions of the Slays, dexterously exploited by the Austrian authorities, can no longer be relied upon. The reign of absolutism in Croatia, culminating in the Cuvaj regime, has at last aroused a unitary consciousness in a race long distracted and oppressed, and policy as well as humanity dictates to Austria-Hungary the acquisition of Southern Slav confidence as a necessity of the first order.
