Talk:Transylvanian Memorandum
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[edit] Confusing sentence in article
"However, the outcome was procrastinated until after World War I and the Treaty of Trianon, with Romania itself oscillating between alliances with the Central Powers and the Entente, and with the parallel offer made by Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria (the heir apparent) to negotiate for a United States of Greater Austria: I can't sort this out, and the fact that "procrastinated" is not a transitive verb looks to be only part of the problem. - Jmabel | Talk 01:48, 2 June 2006 (UTC)
- Yes, I do have my minor flaws :). What I had meant to say was that activism for the union per se was partly postponed by the offer launched by Fr. Ferdinand to negotiate a federal system for the Empire instead of dualism. Of course, as we all know, he died before that could be. I was a little cryptical about it, mainly because I thought that people who want to know more about the United States of Greater Austria can just click the link (to cut out redundancies). The text was also meant to indicate that Romania itself was not getting involved, mainly because it was in a process of deciding whether it should stick with the Entente or with the Central Powers - the latter option made all backing of unionism quite impossible. The two attitudes are also intimately connected, IMO: Transylvanians became more likely to accept negotiating a US of Austria because Romania was attached to Austria and Germany.
- Thank you for helping sort this out, Jmabel. Dahn 23:06, 14 June 2006 (UTC)
