riests, who would thereby procure
for themselves a better situation, and the Ruthenians, who had not been
told of this occurrence, were under the impression that they were still
Orthodox. Professor Cviji['c] believes that, with the help of the
Catholic religion, no less than 113,000 Serbo-Croats have in Baranja
been lost by their Yugoslav brethren.... When the Yugoslavs were asked
by the Supreme Council to evacuate most of Baranja they did so. A
republic, under the presidency of one Dobrovi['c], a well-known cubist
painter, a native of those parts, was formed by Yugoslavs and the
Magyars whose freedom had been safeguarded under their rule. But as this
republic was not assisted by the Yugoslav Government it only lasted for
a week.

Farther to the west is the Prekomurdje, that interesting Slovene
district which extends for about 25 miles along the Mur. The rich plain
that adjoins the river is mostly in the possession of large landowners,
while the hilly country to the north sustains a scattered and poor
population of Calvinists. There are in the whole Prekomurdje some
120,000 Yugoslavs, who are descendants of the old Pannonian Slovenes.
This healthy, honest people has indeed eighteen Catholic and eight
Protestant priests, but is otherwise almost destitute of an
_intelligentsia_. They speak nothing but Slovene, and yet the Magyars
had for ten years previous to the War been so imperialist that only
Magyar schools were tolerated. Thus it happened that the children, like
so many others in the Magyar schools, were at a loss to understand what
they were writing, and if their teacher chanced to learn the Slovene
language he was there and then transferred to Transylvania or the Slovak
country or some other province where he had to teach his pupils in the
Magyar which they did not know. He was supposed to make the children
feel the vast superiority of all things Magyar, so that they should be
ashamed to walk with their own fathers in the streets and speak another
tongue. We are told occasionally in the _Morning Post_ that
consideration should be shown to the Magyars since they are a proud
people, but would they not merit more consideration if they were a
grateful people, grateful that the rest of Europe, overlooking their
Mongolian origin, has accepted them as equals? The Magyars were so
thoroughly persuaded of their own pre-eminence that when the devotees of
Haydn founded in his honour a society at Eisenstadt, where he had
worke