which time, according to Croats, he corrupted a whole
generation, turned Serb against Croat, and played out the radical
demands of the party of Star[c]evi[c] and Frank, is intelligible. The
policy of Count Khuen, which was based on corruption and forgery, on
press-muzzling and career-exploding, has since been imitated, and its
imitation has been largely responsible for this war.

It was not until the Serbs and Croats formed their coalition in 1905
that the trial of strength had come. In Serbia, Peter Karageorgevitch
ascended the throne and reversed the pro-Austrian policy of his
predecessor. This it will be remembered was influenced until then by
the Bulgarian policy of Russia and by Serbia's defeat at the hands of
Bulgaria in 1885. The commercial treaty with Bulgaria in 1905, and the
tariff war which Austria began immediately afterward, pointed out which
way the wind was blowing.

An era big with decisive events arrived. The Jugo-Slavs had learned
that union meant victory, division foreign mastery. Petty politics
and religious fanaticism were forgotten, and Jugo-Slav nationality was
formed in the fierce fires of Austro-Magyar terrorism and forgery and in
the whirlwind reaped from the Balkan wars.

It was too late to talk of trialism unless it meant independence, and,
when it meant that, it did not mean Austrian trialism. The treason trial
by which Baron Rauch hoped to split the Serbo-Croat coalition, and
which was to furnish the cause of a war with Serbia on the annexation of
Bosnia in 1908, collapsed. It rested on forgeries concocted within the
walls of the Austro-Hungarian legation in Belgrade where Count Forgach
held forth. The annexation of Bosnia in 1908 completed the operation
begun in 1878 and called for the completion of the policy of prevention.
It was the forerunner of the press campaign in the first Balkan war,
the Prohaska affair, the attack by Bulgaria upon Serbia and Greece, the
rebuff to Masaryk and Pa[s]i[c], the murder of Francis Ferdinand, and
the Austro-Hungarian note to Serbia. The mysteries connected with the
forgeries and this chain of events will remain a fertile field for
detectives and psychologists and, after that, for historians. For us,
it is necessary to note that, as the hand of Pan-Germanism became more
evident, the Slovenes began to draw nearer to the Croats and the Serbs.
It remained only for the Serbs to electrify the Jugo-Slavs--"to
avenge Kossovo with Kumanovo"--in order to cement