The Washington herald., 1921-01-07

OF HUNGARY IS
PLAN RUMORED
Monarehist Plot Seen in
Dispatches From
Budapest.
LITTLE ENTENTE"
WILL BLOCK MOVE
Attempt to Recreate Gen.
'tral Empire Will
Be Fought.
BY GUGLIELMO EMANUEL.

ROME. Jan. 6.-Reliable news
from Budapest indicates that i'm
minent proclamation of a moarchy
there and, that the Hungarian po-
litical leaders have decided to offer
the crown of Saint Stephen to
Charles Hapsburg. Your corre-
spondent is able to state that Italy
Will strenuOusly oppose an attempt
to restore the Hapsburgs- and will
be supported by .CzechosIovakia.
.Jugoslavia and Rumania. 1t will
be the hrst rtial Of strength of
the little entente" under Italian
lead.
Nobody denies that Hungary has
the right to adopt a monarchiaI
regime in place of the republican,
but what is considered inadmis-
sable is that the Hungarians should
attempt to unsettle through intrigue
the results of the war and OF ItaI-
ian victory by aiming to recon
struCt the Hapsburg system whose
destruction, with the consequent
liberation of oppressed nationalities
of Italians, Slavs. czechosIovaks
and Rumanians. was the wars only
definite beneficial achievement.
Ban Central Empire Reunion.
Rome, as well as Prague, Bel
grade and Bucharest thoroughly
realize that the return of the Haps-
burg to the Hungarian throne will
be only the first step towards an
Austro- Hungarian reunion under
the same monarch with the newt
able result of further attempts to
reabsorb the other provinces which
have detched themselves. This
would mean the beginning of a
fresh era Of unsettlement, intrigues
and conflicts in Central Europe
which, III the interest of peace, must
be checked at once. -.
Since the ,Rapallo negotiations,
your eorrespohdei is able 10 declare
a special agreement was signed BY
the italian and Jugoslav delegates
providing against a Hapsburg res
toratfon, which agreement strength
ems the previous CEecho-Jugoslav
agreement forming the basis of the
Little Entente" The Jugoslav
premier NJ. Vesnich, stated to your
correspondent that this was a mo-
mentous step which would permit
Italy to lead the young nations
born out of the destroyed Austro-
Hungarian realm towards security
and progress.
Nations Are Agreed.
Speaking in the Italian Senate,
December II, Count Sforza, the for
eign minister, confirmed that at
Rapallo not only a treaty had been
signed, but the Italians and Jugo-
Slavs had perfected an agreement
by which. the two governments
would lend political and dipplomatic
support against danger occurring
from action contrary to their in
terests, aiming at Hapsburg r, s.
toration; such agreement was i'm
mediately communicated to the
Czecho- -Slovak government whose
foreign minister will soon visit
Rome"
II the unequivocal warning is not
needed by Budapest it will mean
the Magyars have decided to defy
Rome, Prague ad Belgrade, not
counting Bucharest, whose Interests
are similar. .,
Automatically tne veto against an
eventual Hapsburg return will make
operative a solid block of the Little
Entente plus Italy against Hungary
whose isolation will become un-
bearabIe. Hungary then will dis
cover how little comfort lies in the
platonic support of certain French
quarters, mostly reactionary, where
a Hapsburg restoration is favored
1t should not be forgotten that the
French government has not signed
the several allied notes forbiddine
a Hapsburg restoration nor should
it be overlooked that the return
to the throne of any Hapsburg
prince will establish a clear prece-
dent for an eventual Hohenzollern
restoration.
Copyright, 1921, Public Ledger Co..