The Washington herald., 1918-04-18
BURIAN PICKED
BY AUSTRIA AS
COMPROMISE?
Austrian Effort to Please
u. S. with New Premier
Is Suggested.
UNREST In BALKANS
Bulgar and Turk at Daggers
Drawn Serbia Grows
Irritable.

Count Burian, chosen az premier
of Austria Hungary to succeed
Count Czernin. represents a compro-
mise with Austria's internal trou-
bles. According to diplomatic
dispatches received here yesterday.
he was picked at the last moment.
Up to the moment of the an
nouncement OF his name. Emperor
Karl was supposed to have decided
upon Count Tisza.
Recently Foreign Minister.
Burian was the foreign minister
when the United States and Austria
were exchanging notes over the
sinking of the Ancona. Though he
has been catalogued as one of the
Austrian leaders friendly to the
United States. the experience OF the
President with, Count Czernin has
made official Washington extreme
ly unwilling .te attribute friendli-
ness now to any Austrian who sue
ceeds with his own government.
The State Department yesterday
afternoon received confirmation of
the appointment OF Count Burian.
but officials declined to comment
upoa u
Bulgar-Turk situation Critical.
The situation between Turkey and
Bulgaria is again reported 10 be in a
critical state. No results have been
attained at the conference among the
German war lords at great headauar-
ters and Turkish and Bulgarian
forces are reported to be ready to
pitch into each other on the disputed
territory at the slightest pretext.
1t is considered here that this is
one of the situations which will
plague the new Burian administra-
tion in Vienna While the Dobrudja.
used as a club over Bulgaria. was
ceded TO both Germany and Austria.
by. the terms OF the Rumanian peace,
Austrias interest in the Balkans is
by far more immediate than Ger
many's.
Bulgaria Self-Interested.
Bulgaria. according to the frequent
declarations of her minister to the
United States. is in the war exclu-
sively for her own objects. She has
frequently refused to permit her
troops to be used anywhere but on
her own fronts.
1t is considered possible here that
Bulgaria should desert the central
powers if compelled to yield to her old
enemy. Turkey. 1t Is recalled that
only a month ago tendencies toward
peace evident in Sofia. sent the
Kaiser himself hurrying westward to
propitiate King Ferdinand.
Further cause for dissatisfaction in
Bulgaria Is reported from Italian
sources. Bulgaria is reported as
deeply disturbed over the proposal to
give Bessarabia to Rumania.
Binds Ties More Tightly.
Bulgaria, according to the Italian
advices. is demanding for herself
the full hegemony of the Balkans,
at the expense of all other nations.
This, say the Italians. is only bind
ing more tightly the ties between
Rumania, Servia, Greece and the
entente.
Italian authorities believe that
one of the causes of Count Czernin's
resignation was his oposition to the
Magyars on the question of Ees-
sarabia.
Further accounts of the recent
Czech convention in Prague where
President Wilson was cheered, have
reached Italy. They recite that the
convention adopted a formal pro-
test against the detaching from Bo-
hemia by Germany of the province
of Deutschbobem.
As a result of this conventions
action Czech newspapers have been
barred from the Hungarian mails.
Slovak women presented recently
to Deputy Korziec seven volumes Of
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