Norwich bulletin., 1919-05-26
Racial Medley of Austri. Huna.ry


 Two new nations, Czecho- -Slovakia Slovenes tJugo- -Slaviay, have emerg- ed largely from races and territory of Austria Hungary.
 Further breaking up of theofd dual empire is under discussion at the peace conference. To understand the causes of these realignrnents of peo- pes, It IS necessary to know the rodge- podge racial content of this polygiot state-always more of racial reag- ent than. a melting pot.
 The following is the second of a se- rles of Geographic news bulletins on racial groups of Europe, based on a communication to the National Geo graphic Society from Dr. Edwin A. Grosvenor:
 The Austro- Hungarian monarchy was an anomaly. both as to it's system and as to the ethnical composition of its inhabitants. A reference to its method will throw some light upon present and future conditions.
 Austria Hungary consisted of two equal and independent parts. Austria and Hungary. In Austria in 1910 there were 9,o00,000 Austrian Germans as against 18,243,000 non Germans of va- rious races, mainly Slav In Hungary in 1910 there were 10,051.oo Magyars as against 10.S36, 900 non- Magyars of various races.
 The Germans, though but one third the population in the one, were dom lnant there and the Magyars, though less than half the population in the other were dominant there. To main- tain this ascendancy of these two mi norities summed up all the internal policy and determined most of the for eign policy Of Austria Hungary. The Austrians Germans and the Magyars always disliked each other The Austrian was a foreigner at Buda- Pest and the Magyar at Vienna But each recognized that his own political salvation depended largely on alliance with the other. To the Austrian es- pecially it was an absolute necessity. The ascendancy of each was to be as- cribed in part to long monopoly of power and to superior cleverness in manipula tion.
 But always it could count on ieal- ousies and divisions among the Slavic subjects, condition always encourag- ed. More than once the hopes of i some one of it's subject Slavic peoples 1 have approached realization, only to be thwarted by opposition of other Slavs or by it's own dissensions
 The disruption of the Austro- Hun l garian empire left the Magyars Tn much the same position as before, but ! broke Austria into fragments. The : Austrian Germans still forlsar a compact body, but each of the sub- i ject Slavic peoples sprang to realiza- l tior of the national idea.
 ! The Germans inhabit a large ter ritory, extending from Switzerland l south of Bavaria to a little east ot 1 Vienna; also belt of German popu lation almost surrounds the Czechs and German enclaves are dotted like i islands in the midst of neighborins 1 MagYars and Slavs
 1 Despite freouent usage. it must no be forgotten that the word Austria never was identified with or represent. | ed race. It is a convenient distin- guishing term. as. in saying that tht Austrian Germans have strong sym pathies with the Germans in the form CT German Empire and will ultimatel! unite with them
 "The former South Slav or Jugo Slav. subject Of Austria Eungar, included the Bosnians, Helvats croats
 Slavonians. Dalmatians, and SIovenes The other Slavic peoples. former sub Jects of Austria, are the Czechs. Mo ravians, Slovaks. and Ruthenians
 The CZechs, together with the Slo walks and Moravians, are now recog
 nized hv the United States and tn
 tente allies as forming the independ ent Czecho- -Slhvak nation A hroa,
 area, inl1a bited by Germans and Mag
 vars. searates the Czecho- Slovaks iron
 the Jugo- Slavs"