GREAT BRITAIN AND AUSTRIA-HUNGARY. [To ewe Berme or me "
SPaCtATOR.")
Sia,—May I join your correspondent "S. B." in thanking you for your right attitude towards the problem of Austria-Hungary throughout the war ? In my opinion, Prince Lichnowsky's testi- mony is just as damning for Austria as for Germany, and fully justifies our point of view that Austria has not been the passive tool of Germany, but that it was her imperialistic anti-Slav policy which directly led to this war. A significant point in Lichnowsky's Memorandum is also his final verdict upon the unavoidable dependence of Austria on Germany: " Austria needs our protec- tion in war as in peace, and has no other support. Her dependence on us is based on political, national, and economic considerations. . . . Austria-Hungary is dependent on us even without an Alliance. . . The Germans of Austria acknowledge Berlin as the centre of German Might and Culture. . . . They wish for as intimate a connection with the German Empire as possible, not for an anti-German policy." And in the Berliner Tagebiatt he declared on July 29th last: " A renewal of the Pan-German ideals with Vienna at the head is to be feared as little as an anti- German coalition in which Audtria would participate." This ought to suffice for those naive journalists in this country who still persist in the 'vain hope of seeing Austria tarn against her Prussian Ally. The only guarantee of a stable peace in Central Europe is the creation of a united and independent Polish, Czecho-Slovak, Rumanian, and Jugo-Slav State.—I am, Sir, &c.,
V. NOME.
Czech Press Bureau, Thanet House, 231 Strand, TV.C.2.
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