d, it was allowed on the condition that the statutes and the name
of the society and so forth should be in the Magyar language, although
Haydn was a German. Evidently the poor Slovenes of the Prekomurdje would
be swamped unless they showed exceptional vigour. And when they managed
to survive until after the War the Americans in Paris were for handing
them to Hungary on the ground that the frontier would, if it included
them in Yugoslavia, be an awkward one. Such is also the opinion of Mr.
A. H. E. Taylor in his _The Future of the Southern Slavs_; this author
advocates that Yugoslavia should be bounded by the Mur, albeit in
another part of the same book he says that "a small river is not usually
a good frontier, except on the map"; and the Mur is so narrow that when
Dr. Gaston Reverdy, of the French army, and I arrived at Ljutomir we
found that a crowd of these men and boys had waded across the stream in
order to lay their cause before the doctor, who represented the Entente
in that region. The Bol[vs]evik Magyars were just then threatening to
set all Prekomurdje on fire, and the pleasant-looking, rather shy men
who stood in rows before us begged the doctor to procure them
weapons--they would be able to defend themselves. It is satisfactory to
know that most of this portion of the Yugoslav lands has, after all, not
been lost to the mother country.

(_f_) THE AUSTRIAN FRONTIER

A considerable part of the frontier between Yugoslavia and Austria has
been determined by a plebiscite which was held, under French, British
and Italian control, in the autumn of 1920. The Slovenes during the
previous year had pointed out that while they could no longer claim so
wide a territory now that Austria had been drawn towards the Adriatic,
yet the rural population of Carinthia had remained Slovene, thanks to
the notable qualities of that people. The German-Austrians, on the other
hand, maintained that country districts are the appanages of a town, so
that the wishes of a rural population are of secondary importance. While
these questions were being debated in 1919 by the two interested
parties--and debated, very often, by their rifles--the Italians
intervened. Sonnino's paper, the _Epoca_, made a great outcry over
Klagenfurt (Celovec) which, if given to the Yugoslavs, would be an
insurmountable barrier, it said, to the trade between Triest and Vienna,
although it was clear that the railway connection through Tarvis
remained in the hands