The Morning Post of Tuesday contained a summary of a
remark- , able speech by M. Lovaszy in the Hungarian Parliament. M. Lovaszy is not one of those disgruntled extremists. who. might be expected to attack the policy of their country whatever it might be. He is, so far as we know, an ordinary Magyar politician who had not ithe,remotest objection to the crushing of Berbia with the help of I Cerniany. But now his delusions are at an end. He-confessed in his speech that the policy of the Central Powers had been " not only bad. but criminal -in the extreme." If Germany, had not invaded Belgium, and attacked France oho would not have compelled the intervention of Britain, which had-turned out to be the decisive factor in the war. As it was, the Central Powers were in a pit of (their own -digging. The only way out which he could see was -for the Central Powers to abandon. their joint military efforts. Let sash t.aation henceforth defend its own frontiers. That was all they could hope to do successfully.
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