Vienna Expects Tardy Peace.

New York Times 100 years ago today, February 23, 1913:
A Little Disturbed by French Events — Credits Czar with Peace Motives.
Special Cable to The New York Times.
    LONDON, Feb. 22.— A well-informed Vienna correspondent telegraphs in regard to the international situation:
    "It may take some time yet to clear away the final trouble, but everything points to an eventual peaceful arrangement.
    "More attention is being paid here to events in France. The appointment of Delcassé left us indifferent. We noticed with pleasure that in Germany, too, indifference has been the key of most of the comments.
    "More concern is felt in regard to President Poincaré's message, which breathed too much the language of a dictator, though his thoughts were veiled rather than expressed.
    "But the chief uneasiness relates to the spirit of jingoism which recent events have apparently bred in large circles in France. Popular excitement in Gallia has been dangerous to peace ever since the days of Caesar.
    "There is, however, one saving consideration. The French will never fight for revenge, unless assured of the support of Russia and England. Fortunately for the world, England and Germany are beginning to understand each other better, and the French will, therefore, soon find out that for the purposes of revenge the entente is not available. After that there will be political calm in Europe.
    "Austria hails with pleasure every evidence of Anglo-German co-operation, for under her treaty obligations she would immediately be drawn into any conflict, while her interests are nearly all bound up with the preservation of peace, and the highest circles of Russia are equally pacific.
    "The Pan-Slavists let the cat out of the bag at their recent banquet. A resolution was passed that Russia must not allow its resolutions to be influenced by a barren pacifism, or by fears of internal revolutionary troubles. The Czar was thus reminded that many of the Pan-Slavists agitators were only Revolutionaries in the disguise of ultra-patriots. The Czar cannot but have been confirmed in his policy of peace."