Chapter 4

A decade ago an Austrian historian labelled Austria "a nation sui generis" -- culturally, ethnically, and politically distinct; no one's "errant offspring and lost province". （没人要again

Western wartime planners arrived at the long-term conclusion that an independent Austria was too weak on its own and instead should become a leading element within a Danubian federation. （这……“那家伙一个人活不下去，给他一大家子吧……”？

The document viewed Austria as the keystone of the Danubian arch over the past five centuries.  Its people were at one and the same time the most provincial and the most cosmopolitan in Europe.  Before 1918 they had possessed no sense of national identity and they had failed to develop it subsequently.  They were victims of imperial memories, deeply riven by local and ideological divisions.  Austrians had proved unable to establish a viable state.  Paradoxically, however, Austria's lack of overheated nationalism made the country much more rational than nationalistic Germany or the other Central European states.  Southeast Europe, or as the paper termed it, "Danubia," had finally succumbed to noxious nationalism.  The national principle had obviously proved unworkable in "Danubia."  Its people were too ethnically and religiously mixed, and too passionate. （这什么懒洋洋慢吞吞家主体质啊！

The time for a healthy and independent Danubian union, in which Austria could have found her natural function as an experienced and cultured 'older brother' of the Successor States, had gone. （natural functionって...

然后是懒得摘抄的总结：
贵族你……在眉毛眼里到底有多没用啊！人家研究员巴巴地提出一份“那家伙一个人也能过得挺好的”的报告，然后主编道歉不说，研究员自己就连饭碗都丢了……这……