Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, "Austria, Lower" to "Bacon"

part in the history of the next few years, though it was never fully

ratified by either parliament and was ultimately discarded. Its conclusion was prematurely greeted as the end of a period of economic strife between the two halves of the monarchy and as a pledge of a decade of peaceful development. Events were soon to demonstrate the baselessness of these hopes.

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