ony
between the Magyars and the Serbs; when I was there the only
racial question which occupied the Magyar farmers was the
resolve of their _intelligentsia_ to have, as centre-half in
the football team, not a Magyar but a more skilful Jewish
player.]

[Footnote 33: The Southern Slavs generally acknowledged that
the Foreign Office was bound to behave to Italy, one of the
Great Powers, with a certain deference. They also recognize
that the Foreign Office is not actuated by malevolence if she
treats Belgrade as she did Morocco, when in place of the
strikingly appropriate and picturesque appointment of Sir
Richard Burton our Legation there was occupied by one of a
series of diplomatic automata. After all, these automata, who
have spent more or less laborious years in the service, have to
be deposited somewhere. But if one does not demand of the
Foreign Office that she should make a rule of sending to the
Balkans, where the personal factor is so important, such a man
as the brilliant O'Beirne, who during the War was dispatched
too late to Bulgaria, yet a moderate level should be
maintained--it has happened before now that we have been
represented in a Balkan country by a Minister who, some time
after his arrival, had not read a Treaty dealing with those
people and of which Great Britain was one of the high
contracting parties; when taxed with this omission the
aforesaid Minister hung his head like a guilty schoolboy.]

[Footnote 34: October 13, 1921.]

[Footnote 35: This has been done, but to a much more limited
extent, in Hungary where several hundred men who distinguished
themselves in the European War have been granted the Gold Medal
for Bravery, which entitles each of them to a goodly portion of
land. This the recipient may not sell, but he need not leave it
to his eldest son if a younger one is more interested in
agriculture. Each medallist, by the way, is authorized to
exhibit outside his house a notice which informs the world that
he possesses this most treasured decoration; but perhaps to our
eyes the strangest privilege the Medal carries with it is the
permission to write "Vitez" (which is the Hungarian for
"brave") in front of the name. Thus if Koranji Sandor is
decorated he is to call himself henceforward Vitez Koranji
Sandor, and that is the correct