The reconstruction of South-Eastern Europe

THE RECONSTRUCTION OF

position and continuation of their short-sighted policy of magyarisation and oppression, as reward for their support of the ambitions of the Hapsburg dynasty as well as of those of Germany.

It was a chain so interwoven that if one link in it had been missing the conspiracy against peace and democracy would have failed and the whole plot against Europe would have exploded at once. Had the Hapsburg dynasty stooped from its exalted position of divine right, and studied its interests more in accordance with the happiness and wants of its peoples, it would never have had need for German support of Magyar bribery. The Danubian Monarchy might indeed have tended to develop on the lines of those dreamers and over-logical thinkers, who liked to see in her a forerunner of the future United States of a happier Europe, cured of the racial animosities and crazy ambitions for conquest and dominion by force. Then Germany would perhaps never have formed her plan of world dominion nor have embarked upon that perilous enterprise, armed with her vast arsenal of destructive weapons and frightfulness. Had Germany withheld her assistance to the Hapsburg dynasty the latter would never have formed her plan of the conquest of the Balkans and would either have reformed herself, or given place to new forces of peace and progress. Had not the Magyars, in their blind contempt of other nationalities, or in their foolish as well as criminal

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