What a tempest now beats upon Austria, from all points of the compass, because, during the last season, she attempted only to half enslave the Hungarians,--because she attempted to do what, during the last century, she might have done without a remonstrance!
Mann reflects on the political turmoil in Austria due to its oppressive actions towards Hungary.
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