AUSTRIA: No Home

Count Berchtold, Austro-Hungarian Foreign Minister at the outbreak of the War, is a citizen of No-Man’s-Land.

According to a despatch from Prague, capital of Czecho-Slovakia, he is trying to get the matter of his nationality settled. The circumstances are: Twelve years ago he, an Austrian, became a nationalized Hungarian for political reasons. His property was in north Hungary, part of which is now Czecho-Slovakian country. He concluded that he was a Slovak, but the Government recognized him as a Hungarian and refused to grant him citizenship in the Republic. But because he has not made use of his Hungarian citizenship for ten years, it has lapsed. Now he has no country.