The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1920-03-29
CALLS FOR PLEBISCTTE
UNDER THE TREATY
In Order That People May Decide What
Country They Wish to Live I'm
der, Count Apponyi of
Hungary.

Paris, March 29.-Count Albert Ap
ponyi, head of the Hungarian peace
| delegation, in the second and conclud
| ing article on the Hungarian peace
! treaty which he prepared for the Asso
| ciated Press. calls for a plcbiscite OF
the Inhabitants of the regions severed
from Hungary by the Versailles treaty
| He says
Comparing Hungary as she. was be,
| fore the war with the new states Gre
ated or aggrandized through dismem.
berment, the situation is this
"The Hungary of old is the finest
natural geographic unit in Europe
whose limits are fixed by mountains
and rivers; whose parts are economi-
cally interdependent, so as to make the
whole almost self supporting. For
more than 1000 years this part of Eu-
rope never gave trouble to the rest,
rather ayerted from it whatever trou-
BILE threatened it's tranquility and safe
ty from the East. While historic Hun
gary stood, the troublesome area of
Europe was as distant from the center
as the Balkan peninsula.
ITO make the moral cohesion of her
people perfect. one factor alone was
wanting; racial unity. On this plea
was her dissection planned New con-
structions arise on her ruins. based on
the racial principle, irrespective Of ge-
ography, history or political economy.
We make the astonishing discovery
that these new constructions are ra-
cially quite as mixed as Hungary has
been"
Count Apponyi declares that $40 per
cent of the 100000 inhabitants of
Hungary proper" were Magyars. 1911
Rumanian. 1917 Slovak. 1914 German
and the rest Serb, Ruthenian or mis-
cellaneous. Comparing these to the
newly organized or aggrandiZed states,
he says that the population of Czeeho-
Slovakia has claimed parts of Hungary
containing 100000 persons of which
a. per cent are Slovak and 81 per cent
Magyar or German. Rumania claims
territories on which live about $500.
600 souls, of which 50 per cent are
Rumanisn and 43 per cent Magyar or
German. The population of parts of
Hungary annexed by Jugo Slavia, saws
Count Appony. is only % per cent
Jugo- Slav, 80 per cent Magyar and q
per cent German. Count APponyi con
tinues:
These figures show that the only
principle OF organic unity that has
been wanting TO Hungary's racial unity
is likewise wanting TO the states arti
ficially built up on her ruins; the diff.
ference consists only in this, that Hun
ID ,.f.N lns.
ciple of unity, while the new states
have none, absolutely none. What is
still worse, the leadership in them will
be transferred to races of inferior cul- |
ture, the results of which we may |
already notice, after one years occupa
ton of the territories torn from Hun |
gary. There is wanton destruction |
Of cultural values, universities. high |
schools and others. On the territory |
by Rumanians, 5000 grammar
schools are deserted. the former teacher |
having been expelled and nobody being |
found to supplement him, in conse-
luence of which more than 100000 chill |
iren are left without education of any |
sort. There is a conspieuously lower
evel of public functionaries and the /
general prevalence of semibsrbarous
methods of government
What can result from this state of
hings' Will those people who are
severed from their beloved old
associations only to be subjected to
lien government of an inferior sort
hose 100000 Magyars and Germans
orn from Hungary will they ever be
to Standardization imply
ng economic losses and cultural retro
Tessiong Can the conscience of hui
nanity tolerate such downfall of
nillionsg Anyhow il is certain that
hose new constructions, with no vital
rinciple in them, will be distracted by