The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-03-24
PlebiScite In Hungary
 Urged By Count Apponyi

Paris, March 24.---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 As soctaked Press, calls for a pleolSc-te | of the inhabitants of the regions seV- cred from Hungary by the Versailles tneaty. He says: '|Comparing Hungary as she waS before the war with the new states created or aggrandized through dis memberment, the situation is this: s"The Hungary of old is the finest natural geographic unity In Europe whose limits are fixed by mountains and rivers; whose parts are econOmi- cally interdependent, so as to make the whole almost h-supportng- For more than l ,0G0 years this part of Eu- rope never gave trouble to the rest, rather averted from it whatever trou- ble threatened it's tranq1llty 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
 ''To make the moral cohesion of her people perfect, one factor alone was wanting; racial unity On this plea was .her dissection planned. New con strpctions arise on her ruins, based on the racial principles, irrespective Of geography, history, or political econ omy. We make the astonishing d1s- covery that these new constructions are raciaNy quite as mixed as Hun gary has been.''
 Count Apponyi declares that 54.5 per cent of the 18,090,G 600 inhabitants of Hungary proper were Magyars, 16-1 Er1nanian, 107 Slo~aa< 1O.4 German and the rest Serb, R1rthenian or mis- ce11aneous- Comparing these to the newly organized or aggranddzed states ha- says that the population of Czecho- SloEaazia. has claimed parts of Hun gary containing S,57eO00 persons of which 47 per cent are SloVak and S7 per cent. Magyar or German. Rl1na- nia. claims territories which live about 5,26O, GOO souls of which 5 per cent are Rurnanban and 43 per cent Magyar or German. The population of parts of Hungary annexed by Jugo- -S9axia- says Count Apponyi, is only g per cent Jugo-Shav, B per cent MaGyarrand z7 per cent German. Count APponyi continues:
 '~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 arttfcially built up on her ruins; the difference consists only in this, that
 
 CT principle 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 culture, the results of which we may already notice, after one years occupation of the territories torn from Hungary. There is a wanton destruction of cultural values, universities, high schools and others. On the territory occupied by Ruma- nians 5000 grammar schools are deserted, the former teacher having been expelled and nobody being found to supplement him, in consequence of which more than 100000 children are n.Ieft without education of any sort TRere is a conspicuously lower leve Iof public functionaries and the gen eraf < prevalence Of semi barbarous methods of government.
 What can result from this state ot things? Will those people who are violently severed from their beloved old associations only to be subjected to alien government of an inferior sort-those 100000 Magyars and Germans torn from Hungary-wil they ever be reconci1ed to donation. a1ization implying economic losses and cultural retrogression? Can the conscience of humanity tolerate sucI a downfall Of millions Anyhow l is certain that those new construc tions, with no vital principle in them will 4be- distracted by the permanenca of @ most violent, because most leg itimate, irredentism and that through them eastern and central Europ will lznownosTest, till the equilibrun represented by old Hungary is re stored
 'sThese facts answer the questio7 how far the destruction of Hunga7' and the. constructions planned on he ruins promote the general welfare 0 naanazind2 2 It would confer on ou part-of tEuroperthe following bless ings.s
 Racial discussions not assuage but embittered; permanent unres implying danger of new wars.
 Economic difficulties enhanced thereby social dangers aggravated.
 Cultural retrogression in govern ment, learning, general standard c education.
 'But how does liberty fare in tn proposed peace-treaty? In it's term millions of men would be driven froE one allegiance to another, withou being consulted as to their wishes. I the case of nearly half of them, ( MagyaEs and Germans who shoul become CzecI1o-SioEak, Run1anian C JugO- -SIav subjects, you may conf sdenfly assert that it would be dor against their will, that it means mors istorfuEeto them But even the Slaz and RzzmanianS who would be trans p8an6ed to states raciaIsy more homo genouS, can simply be supposed i Hong for such change and there aI many symptoms indicative Of the It sverse. chiefly among the Siovak sRuthenians and the RomanLCathoI s.Jugo-SlaESA
 ~TheTe is only one way to sett tfdat question with result that ca snos more be challenged: it is the pI tbiScffe- And the plebfScite is wh: Hungary asks for and insists on. every region claimed by our neigI bors, SC. do we say, let the people d. eide; we zIncondftiona1ly submit to : decision; we do not want a single so to remain with but by an act xSee win. We have bpen charge