By Count Michael Karolyi, Leader of Hungarian Independent Party, New
York, July 27.
If Austria had pursued a policy of directly helping the Balkan
countries, if Austria had in the past made it a point to be
actively their friend, this war would not confront us. Since it has
come, of course all Hungarians will support the empire and internal
differences will be dismissed while the empire is imperiled.
As for the loyalty of the many Serbs within Austria-Hungary it is
hard to say. There again we must hope that they will take the
Austrian side. But the Austrian policy toward the Balkan countries
has been wrong, all wrong.
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