Affairs in Hungary appear to have arrived at a deadlock,
the King being unable to find a Minister willing to sacrifice himself by an effort to govern without concessions on the Army question, which the King, for reasons stated at length elsewhere, refuses to make. His Majesty thinks that to sites the language used in words of command, which is now German, will rouse all the multitudinous races under his sceptre to prefer the same demand. The Croats, indeed, are preferring it now. He therefore refuses, and stories are current that he has threatened to abdicate. That, however, would improve nothing, as his visible successors are by no means men of the first force, and another plan will probably be tried. This is to wait till the paralysis of Parliamentary activity becomes too inconvenient to the nation. Under the Constitution the taxes can be levied, the permanent Services will continue at work, and fresh legislation is not absolutely necessary. That is not a bad scheme, but it would break down if a war loan became indispensable. The Magyars, with so heavy a majority below them of races which are not Magyar, seem to outsiders most unwise, but they know best the strength of their grip on their own lower orders. Only they should remember in time that a caste, however able or numerous, is powerless when King and proletariat act together against it.
