on's "usual language" is taken to be that in which he
listens to the word of God. These ecclesiastical lists were published by
German bishops, and according to them we find that the region we are
considering held in 1910 some 40,000 Germans and 123,000 Slovenes.

We have seen that Celovec, like the smaller towns in this area, leans
more to the Austrians than to the Yugoslavs. This is partly the effect
of the Austrian Government's policy and partly of the various pan-German
societies (_e.g._ the "Kaerntner Bauernbund," the "Verein der
Alldeutschen," the "Deutscher Volksverein," etc. etc.), which, as was
admitted, drew their funds to a considerable extent from Germany
herself.

The German Republic was very lavish in assisting her smaller Austrian
sister during the period before the plebiscite, pouring both goods and
cash into the district; and after the opening of the demarcation line
between the two zones at the beginning of August they were able to
introduce their supplies quite openly into zone "A." Very few Germans of
the north believe that the German-Austrian Republic will permanently
remain separated from themselves.... Both Yugoslavs and Austrians
circulated vast quantities of printed matter; for the Yugoslavs the most
convincing argument lay in Austria's apparently hopeless economic
position and the undesirability of belonging to a State which had to pay
so huge a debt; the Austrian pamphlets denounced the Serbs as a military
race, though even such a dealer in false evidence as the eminent
Austrian historian, Dr. Friedjung, would find it difficult to sustain
the thesis that the wars engaged in by the Serbs during the last hundred
years were more of an offensive than of a defensive character. In
several prettily prepared handbooks the voters were implored by the
Austrians not to be so old-fashioned as to plump for a monarchy when
they had such a chance of becoming republicans; one could almost see the
writer of these scornful phrases stop to wipe his over-heated brow after
having pushed back his old Imperial and Royal headgear. You might
imagine that the Austrians in their deplorable economic condition would
have avoided this topic; on the contrary, they proclaimed that several
commodities which were lacking in Yugoslavia could be furnished by them
in abundance. One of these, they said, was salt; and certainly the
Yugoslavs purchased a good deal of it, but that was only when they did
not know that it was German sa