Publisher's Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1908 edition. Excerpt: ...there is no Opposition worthy of the name, the country is full of discontent and impatience. In October 1907 Mr. Mezofi, the only Socialist deputy in the House, was received with loud and hostile cries when his interpellation on electoral reform was announced, and only a single member of the entire Coalition party voted for its urgency. This would seem somewhat illogical in a party whose leaders at their accession to power laid repeated stress on the transitional nature of their government. The Coalition has now been in office for two years and a half, and so far no indication The germ of this chapter is contained in an article entitled " Politische Verfolgungen in Ungarn," published last December in the Oesterreichische Rundschau, and republished in April, 1908, in pamphlet form in English, French, German (Political Persecution in Hungary: An Appeal to British Public Opinion. By Scotus Viator) and In an article in the Manchester Guardian of November 30, 1907, entitled "Backward Hungary: Her Political and Social Needs." has been given as to the lines on which this reform, admittedly the chief item in their programme, is to proceed. As Count Andrassy, the Minister whose duty it will be to introduce the Bill, has justly observed, the whole future of Hungary depends upon the manner in which this problem is solved; and hence no apology is needed for its discussion in a book which deals with the racial question in Hungary. The present electoral law of Hungary, when it was passed in 1874, compared not unfavourably with that of many other countries, especially Austria, where the complicated curial system prevailed. But since that date it has been out-distanced by all its neighbours, and is to-day probably the most illiberal...