Count Albert APponyi, President of the Hungarian Reichs- tag, has
just issued in the form of an address to the "Society at Pressburg for Hungarian Culture" a manifesto which, as we have pointed out elsewhere, may prove of serious import. He is evidently afraid, as we see M. Szell, the Hungarian Premier, is also afraid, of the revival of race bitterness in Hungary. There has always been danger of this, for though everybody speaks of the Magyars, or ruling caste, as "the Hungarians," they form only 40 per cent. of the population, another 40 per cent. being Slays, and the remaining 20 per cent. a medley of races, among whom the Germans (6 per cent.) and the Roumanians (7 per cent.) are the most notable. The Count does not mention the Pan-Germans, though it is their agitation which has started the trouble ; but he says dis- tinctly that the "unity" of Hungary is threatened, the people being " disintegrated,". into racial groups. The danger is the more formidable because, while the Magyars stand alone, the Germans and Slays have each the sympathies of mighty Empires, and even the Roumanians have force behind them outside. Austrian limits. " Disintegration " in South-Eastern Europe on the principle of race would be so shattering a change that it will, we fancy, be avoided, as it has so long been ; but the storm-clouds-in Austria gather thick.
