New-York tribune., 1920-03-21
Peace Tern1s
erusll Hungary,
| Says Apponyi
keaty Is Sentence of Death.
Based on One-Sided Infor.
! smation, Declares Head of
Commission at Versailles
alled Claring Injustice
4ianearians Never Cot nance
Z to Present Facts of Coun-
:try's Problem, He Asserts

PARIS, March Count Albert Ap-
HShyi, head of the Hungarian peace
Sonmission, has given The Associated
bess the first of two articles he has
NStten on the Hungarian peace treaty.
JM article says:
|. fThe decisions Of the Allied Powers,
AS laid down in the peace treaty offered
h&Hungary, were ripened on the basis
UH one-sided information. Hungary
81 fer got chance to represent the
3aSts of her own problem from her
kwn point of view; her enemies, her
xiyals, those who coveted her terri
to1ies, alone had hearing. Now it is
bffectly true that In war Hungary
had been among the enemies and her
a 4rementioned neighbors among the
friends Of the Entente. SO it seems
quite natural that partiality should be
! Own to them. We admit that; we
y not asking for impartiality be-
yeen friend and foe; that would be
natural. But, if in the first stage
nf inquiry you listen to one side only
yeu will have a distorted, an untrue
= " OF facts and tho decisions founded
1& such an unsound basis will be
9Nught with injustice and future dan
Gers. This deviation from the princi-
pies Of fair procedure lies at the bot
fQn OF the errors which characterize
a monument Of injustice and as a
source Of dangers to the peace Of
fprope.
4 = Twothird, ~ r.~-a<>-
s'Let me give its outlines in a few
Eprds as possible:
4 ut takes away from Hungary two
Thirds Of her territory and of her pop
flation. 1t gives, to what is left Of
hsf. frontiers defenseless, everywhere
open to hostile invasion. 1t deprives
Rer by cutting off the peripheral re-
Tions of almost all her woodland, pas
t1re grounds. iron ore, salt, oil, btu
minous gas, water power, of the greater
RFt Of her manufacturing establish
fnents and her best coal mines. 1t dis
f$ts the natural unity Of her river sys-
Iesh, so as 20 make impossible rational
system Of water regulation, which
psans that foods and dryness will a.
*exnate in the center left to her. 1t
reduces her territory to the great cen
tral plain and her economic life to
Merely agricultural one, but at the
same time it deprives that agriculture,
thu only source Of prosperity left to
hS, Of every chance of progress by
cutting it off from all its raw mater
ia1s and from all natural markets and
bN handing it over to the mercies Of
nqp-regulated waters.
Treaty Sentence Of Death,
&on these reduced and impoverished
rdnlps is laid to large extent the
burden of the national debt contracted
BY the whole country before its mu-
AS ton and the further burdens, un-
deaned in figures, resulting from the
prrnc pies Of 'reparations.' No account
as~t Sen of the fact that this country,
ak aaving suffered, like all the bel
= 4 !'a:a.s. from the war, has been
pl~nGered by four months Of Bolshevik
rule and three months more Of Ru-
manlan occupation. Payments are ex-
AGED from her without delay in her
present state of distraction which
weuld have ruined her in the bright
e& days of her economic prosperity
Her commercial policy, her river navi-
gation are submitted to restrictions and
Regulations which make economic re-
viSal all but impossible.
: sThis picture looks like a caricaturc,
but, no, it is portrait.
THAT treaty is sentence Of death.
Isit was not meant to be that, then
itsis monstrous mistake, arising
fr1m the original sin of one-sided in
formation.
sNow let US examine how far It is
todnded on justice or on general ex-
Ped ency What is its ethical justi-
fication, what is its promise?
= Hungary Held Most Guilty of All
xThe Allied powers hold the van
pushed countries responsible for the