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...Austrians, led by most of their daily journals, have shaken off the spell of Prussian mesmerism and dealt a decided blow to the hopes of an Austro-German State . . . hopes which were not merely fictional, but were worked out on an absolute plan with characteristic German efficiency. Pan-Germanism is the name for this idea which would unite Austria and Germany into one; it has its leaders and thinkers, who were running for Austrian offices in the elections; and they made it clear that, once elected they would proceed to put their idea into operation. They asked the support...
Thus the question of Pan-Germanism, while not submitted to an official plebiscite, was, nevertheless, practically decided so far as Austria is concerned; the Pan-German leaders failed to gain a foothold in the elections. Had they won, they would have taken their victory as carte blanche approval of the Austrian people. But they have lost, and so decisively as to render any official action on the question--even of a plebiscite--unnecessary and highly improbable...
...Army and in the financing of the Hungarian railways; but whatever the reason for her actions, she has at least freed Europe of the anxiety of seeing two large countries merge into one domineering state, and has gone a long way toward treeing herself from the deadly influence of Pan-Germanism...
...ordinarily, a retailer of shoes or anything else. In the present case it had shoes manufactured for it in various factories, and in immense quantities on the speculative chance that after war Europe would provide a greedy and almost unlimited market for them. But the chance did not pan out. Badly as Europe needed shoes, it could not pay the prices asked. They were high for the American market. They were made doubly high for the European market by the adverse exchange rates on the United States. So the great stock of around 1,500,000 pairs is now thrown...
...Nicaragua didn't accept a mandate without bloodshed and protests. How can Mexico? You tell us that "war may be an amusing national industry, but it is rarely a profitable or a healthy one.' And then you propose to send us headlong into a Mexican and thus into a Pan-American...