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> They created the Little Entente to prevent the revenge Hungary would have inevitably done with her unstoppable force described above. This also isolated the country diplomatically.
Reading Ernst Starhemberg's memoirs, I was amazed at how hardheaded the Little Entente was about keeping Austria and Hungary down at all costs. Even as Germany was spreading its tendrils to the Balkans in the 30s and threatening Austrian and Czechoslovak sovereignty, their foreign policy was first and foremost anti-Austrian, to the point that Yugoslavia went as far as backing the failed 1934 Nazi coup by housing the escaped Austrian National Socialists and shipping them back to Germany.
Austrian diplomats sought Balkan allies or even a Danubian economic union to ward off German pressure, but Hungary was the only nation to discuss with them on non-hostile terms, with Horthy stating to him in 1934 that "a German-Hungarian border would create an unsustainable situation for Hungary". Masaryk and Titulescu demonstrated sympathy for his desperate stand against Germany during George V's funeral in 1936 (though their countries didn't change their unhelpful attitudes), while Prince Paul of Yugoslavia gave him the cold shoulder. Legitimist circles were openly discussing a Habsburg restoration at the time and the Little Entente considered such a possibility worse than an Anschluss, even though Schuschsnigg had no intention to do it. Yugoslavia was also paranoid about a hypothetical alliance between Austria and Croatian separatists.