dgment
might be, the engines remain in their rust--these useful iron servants
of humanity have perished. They are symbols of a spoliatory peace.

Serbia discourages travel to Hungary. Hungary for her part bristles
with spears. Above the passport window on the Danube quay at Budapest
you read:

I BELIEVE IN ONE GOD.
I BELIEVE IN GOD'S ETERNAL JUSTICE.
I BELIEVE IN THE RESURRECTION OF HUNGARY.

--a dangerous creed.

Dr. M----, first assistant at the University of Vienna, now made a
Czech subject against his will, put the matter well: "Bismarck was a
man of genius, but he made a great mistake in taking Alsace and
Lorraine. And Clemenceau was a great man, greater for instance than
Lloyd George; I treated him for twelve years, I know his character
well, but he outdid Bismarck by making a whole series of
Alsace-Lorraines in Europe. It means a century of wars to put it
right."

"There would be war now," said Von K----, an ex-Captain of the 3rd
Hussars. "But we shudder to take the responsibility of plunging Europe
once more into the bath of blood."

The 3rd Hussars is called the Dead Regiment now. It was reduced to
five officers and a hundred and thirty-seven men in the war. It was
resolved not to recruit for it again, but to leave it as it was left,
and it paraded before the King at Budapest in its original formation,
showing all the gaps. "It was tremendously impressive," said the
Captain--"one man here, two there, three only on the right wing. Many
of us who had come through all that hell with dry eyes wept like
children in the parade.

"We often receive letters from our people in Roumania, Czecho-Slovakia
and Jugo-Slavia, saying 'Why do you not come over and protect us?'" he
went on. "If we marched into the stolen territories, the local
populations would all rise in our favour. The time will come, but it
is not yet. The last word has not been said."

That conversation was at the beginning of April, and Karl was actually
in Budapest endeavouring in a clumsy way to follow the example of
Constantine in Greece and resume monarchical sway. Budapest for a day
was all agog with rumour and whispered conversations. Karl was
popular, but his failure was sensed by the populace. He had come
inopportunely, despite the fact that the great powers seemed not
unfavourable. France, by many accounts, had given secret countenance
to the return of the Hapsburg, Karl being known as Francophile in
policy. "Pre