VOLITICS ON A BANK NOTE

Evening Star, Issue 16987, 8 March 1919, Page 9

VOLITICS ON A BANK NOTE

" To realise some of the problem? which the head of tho Dual Monarchy has to face cast vour ere ever an Austro-Hungariaii bank iote ("says the * Manchester Guardian ). Such is the advice proffered by an ardent, fighter in the cause of Pan-slavism. 'An Austere-Hungarian bank note, says Mr Tonioroff, "constitute,, an mterestinV historical document, It presents, in the characters on its two sides, a rmiltipnoity of languages, reflecting the diversity of races that dwell under the double eagle of the Hapsburgs. It also suggests the broad difference between the Austrian Empire and the Kingdom of Hungary in their methods o. dealing the problem of race. On one sid»-the Austrian nde-of the note the value is designated in eight languagesCzech German, Serbo Croatian (in both Cvrillic and Latin characters), Polish, Huthenian, Slovenian, Rumanian, and Italian, representing the principal races within the boundaries of Austria. Chi the other aide onlv the Magyar hmguage appears—the boiisrue of the people who dominate Hungary politically, although, unless all authorities are at fault, they constitute a tele lesa than half the total population of that country The contrast presented by the paper wrre-cv of the Dual Monarchy throws an ilhuTiinatiwr li.'ht upon some of the latter events in the developments of its ooliiacal