HUNGARIAN LEADERS.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXVIII, Issue 7969, 21 February 1906, Page 3

HUNGARIAN LEADERS.

Baron Fejervary, the present Premier of Hungary, is sometimes spoken of as though he were not a Hungarian leader. But the fact that he has eudeavorued to effect a working compromise between (be Hungarians uud the King should not deprive him-of the name of patriot. fie mas ennobled for gallant conduct at Solferino, and vvas appointed aide-deoatnp to the Emperor, so that he has naturally a leaning towards the side of the JRo/ulists. Bat he took office last year under conditions that would be impossible in Britain. The Apponyi-Kossuth combination, which /had been sno ( cessful at the noils, was not accept-' able to' the Emperor, and it was only after a personal appeal from the throne that Baron Fejerv.ary took the thankless office. Count Apponyi is probably the chief of the popular leaders of Absolutism, and the Count himself began his political life as a Conservative. But he is the leader of the Opposition now urging the separation of Austria and Hungary and the retention of the King only as the connection ,in a "personal union." Count Apronyi is not a practical statesman in the sense that he ever took part in commercial life or ihe administration of government, but he is tbo best speaker in the country, and one of the ablest men on the Continent. Another leader of the crisis is Francis Kossuth, one of the great reformers. Without his famous father's eloquence, Count Kossuth is a very clever and tautfnl politician. He is inclined to compru mise between the various interests, but he is held in check x by the elements of his own party and by the success of Count Apponyi. A strong factor in the situatiou is Baron Desidarius Banfl'y, the former Prime Minister, who, without Apponyi's eloquence or Kossuth's informatoo, is a man of strongest will possessing the ability to use political questions in political agitation. Still another man who is expected to have some influencejn the settlement of Hungary's affairs,is Count Julius And-assy, the distinguished son of a distinguiohed v fatheft He is a Radical now, but, like Baron Bauffy, he will certainly accept, a compromise if the Emperor shows any disposition to yield. I