Word: austro-hungarian
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AUSTRIA IN DISSOLUTION?Count Stephen Burián? Doran ($6.00). Count Burián, who held office in 1915-17 and again in 1918, was virtually the last Foreign Minister of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. It is true that, late in October, 1918, Count Julius Andrassy succeeded him, but as Count Burián remarks in view of the bursting storm, he "was already regarded as the first Hungarian Minister for Foreign Affairs...
After the War, the Austro-Hungarian mission was liquidated and Hungary was left without diplomatic or consular representation in Mexico. Count Szechenyi's visit to that country was for the purpose of establishnig honorary consulships and negotiating for full diplomatic representation...
...problem which faces the country is almost parallel to the old Austro-Hungarian nationality question. The Serbs, led by white-haired Nikolai Pashitch, want a Greater Serbia-that is, a strong central government for the whole nation. The others are split. The Croatians want autonomy (self-government), some under the monarchy, some outside it as an independent republic. The Montenegrins demand a plebiscite which shall permit them to settle whether they are to stay as an autonomous country under the existing Karageovgevitch Monarchy or become again, as they were before 1921, an independent country. The remainder are mainly...
...first intimation of his existence. Died. John W. Alden, 77, direct descendant of John and Priscilla Alden, famed Pilgrims; in Duxbury, Mass. Died. Baroness von Vetsera, 78, mother of the beautiful Countess Marie von Vetsera, who, in 1889, was found dead with Crown Prince Rudolf, heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne, in his hunting lodge near Vienna; at Payerbach, near Vienna, where she lived in seclusion. Died. Edmund Plummer, 93, last of the boys who suffered under Schoolmaster Squeers, immortalized in Nicholas Nickleby; in London, on the 113th anniversary of Charles Dickens' birth...
...Federation of all states along the banks of the Danube (CzechoSlovakia, Austria, Hungary, Yugo-Slavia, Bulgaria, Rumania) and old idea opposed strongly by Foreign Minister Eduard Benes as a tendency towards restoring the Austro-Hungarian hegemony...