The Greeneville daily sun. (Greeneville, Tenn.) 1918-1920, 1918-10-30
AUsFRIA's PERFIDloUs OVERTURE.

I1ed lSeI ana mpuuenty ADDS tnaJ awaits proposals
for armistce," though the allies seeking to
end hosities the Ausro- Hungarian government under
its Magyar foreign minister makes perfdiOus offer to
desert its German ally. In each the peace offensive"
is offensive in double sense because it insults the in
teigence well as the honor Of the allied governments
The faehoods so gross and papae that they could
have been concocted only by numbskulls. Fudge the
enemy ministers Of falsehood and the stupidity would
still remain dangerous ally of the brutality that dom
mates the enemy's military power
The new foreign minister who makes the latest pro-
testaon to President Wilson is Count Julius Andrassy
Magyar, Of that Andrassy who was acclaimed by
Bismarck the ablest statesman of Europe after An
Grassy had co-operated in making the GermanAustrian
alliance. With Bismarck's consent Austria annexed
Bosnia and Herzegovina and laid the foundation of the
present war The Magyar alliance with the Germans,
fOsered by Bismarck and Andassy has caused the death
of less than 100000 soldiers and plunged Europe
into morass Of debt from which she will not extricate
herself for the next century eve sit today upon the
ruins Of thirty years of Hohenzolern politics." says Max
Harden The Hohenzolens have been ably assisted in
their wreckng operations ythe Hapsburgs and Magyars
is the bloody hands of these murderers that
outsretched to President Wilson, asking him for help in
shielding them from the wrath of the allies. Count An
Grassy tells The President that AustraHungary adheres
to the point of view contained in his note concerning
the rights of the peoples Of Hungary especially
the CzechoSlovaks and Jugoslavs" though peo
pies had rights than Others But President Wilson
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might adhere while at the same time differing entirely
to the objects viewed He definitely informed Austria
Hungary that deal with its oppressed peoples and
satisfy them to the quality of freedom accorded to
them. Austra-Hungary has not done this. On the
trary it is engaged in trying to suppress with the
saber and machine gum the national aspirations Of the
Croats at Fume, the Slovenes at Labach the Czechs
at Pisen, and the Roumanians at Hermanstadt.
Austria Hungary has kept itself together by fomentng
hatred among its various natonaites and thereby dvd
ing them. Now that these natonalities are receiving
sympathy and support from powerful nations that are
seeking to destroy the Hohenzolern and Hapburg sys
TENS Of oppression the TeuonMagyar scheme Of "dvde
ct mpera is to be failure Every subject people
in the Hapsburg empire is rising and demanding it's in
dependence.
Are these subject nations to be free or not? The
United States through President Wilson, has said that
they shall be free. The allied nations have gone even
farther by recognizing the independence of Of them
and by aiding them ALL If the oppressed nations in the
Hapsburg system liberated there will be Austria
Hungary with which to DEAL either for armistice
for peace Count Andrassy knows that his only chance
of saving the Hapsburg crown is to nveige President
Wilson into negotiations. The entente allies will have
of these exchanges except application by pleni-
potentiaries for armisce, such made by Bull
garia.
There is danger that President Wilson will throw
away the fruits of victory and become the catspaw Of
Germany by accedng to Austria request to be kind
negotiate for an armisce on her fronts That is
matter pertaining strictly to military operations under
the supreme direction of Marshal Foch Great armies
hammering down the Austrian fronts in Italy, in
Albania, and the Danube. Liberty is breaking into
AustriaHungary Why should it not do its perfect work.
If Hungary is at the point Of collapse if its
desire for armistce and peace not mere ruse in
Germany's behalf let Count Andrassy address himself
President Masaryk of the CzechoSovak government
and to the Jugosav representatives, including Serbia
They give him clear idea of what the Hapsburgs
do escape destruction It would be nothing more
than justice to refer Austria Hungary to Serbia the
victim that marked out for slaughter in 1914 When
Serbia notifies her allies that Hungary has made
amends for all that has occurred it will be time for
making peace-Washington Post.