The Pester Lloyd, the most important of Hungarian news- papers,
declares it is time to reconsider the entente between Austria and Russia. That entente has preserved peace in the Balkans, but there are now signs that Russia, having settled affairs in the Far East, is disposed to abandon it, and recommence in the Peninsula a Pan-Slavic agitation. It would be necessary, of course, to resist this, and as a pre- liminary the Pester Lloyd would let the entente drop. The article is the more remarkable because of its freedom from violence of tone. The writer admits that the Russian Cabinet may intend to be loyal, but points out that so it was also just previous to the war with Turkey. The Pan-Slays first agitated the Balkan States, and then forced the Czar into a war with Turkey he would willingly have avoided.
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