The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-03-20

Paris, Mar. 20-Count Albert Apponyi 1 head of the Bulgarian peace comnis- | sion, has given The Associated Press the first of two articles he has writ ten on the Hungarian peace treaty. The article says:
 t"The decisions of the Allied Pow CTS as laid down in the peace treaty offered to Hungary, were ripened on the basis of one-sided information. Hungary never got a chance to repre- sent the facts of her own problem from her point of view; her enemies, her rivals, those who coveted her territories, alone had A hearing. Now it is perfectly true that in war Hun gary had been among the enemies and her aforementioned neighbors among the friends of the Entente. So it seems quite natural that partialtty should be shown to them. We admit that; we are not asking for impar- tia1ity between friend and foe; that would be unnatural. But, if, in the first stage of inquiry, you listen to one side only, you VIII nave dis- torted, an untrue view of facts and the decisions founded on such an un- sound basis will be fraught with in- justice and future dangers. This deviation from the principles of fair procedure lies at the bottom of the errors which characterize the pecae treaty offered to Hungary as mon- ument of injustice and as a source of dangers to the peace of Europe.
 ELet me give it's outlines in as few words as possible:
 'It takes away from Hungary two- thirds of her territory and of her pop ulation. It gives, to what is left of her, frontiers defenceless, everywhere f her by cutting off the periferia1 re- gions of almost all of her woodland, l pasture-grounds, iron ore, salt, oil I bituminous gas water power, of the | greater part of her manufacturing g l establishments and of her best coal mines. It dissects the natural unity | of her river system, which means
 that floods and dryness will alternate 1 in the center left to her. It reduces her territory to the great central plain and her economic life to a mere l ly agricultural one, but, at the same time it deprives that agriculture, the
 only source of prosperity left to her of every chance of progress by cut. | ting it off from all it's raw materials l and from all natural markets and by handing it over to the mercies o1 non-regulated waters.
 "On these reduced and impover. | ished rumps is laid to a large exten
 the burden of the national debt con,
 tracted by the. whole country before
 it's mutilation and the further bur
 dens, undef1ned in figures, resulting
 from the principles of 'reparations'
 No account is taken of the fact tha
 this country, after having suffered
 like all the belligerents, from th' l war, has been plundered by fou l of aUjlx r111a thT-e months more of Rumanian occupa
 ton. Payments are exacted iron her without delay in her presen state of distraction which could hay ruined her in the brightest days 0
 her economic prosperity. Her com mercial policy, her river navigation are submitted to restrictions an = regulations which make economic re vival all but impossible.
 '~This picture looks like a carica
 ture; but no, it is a portrait.
 ''That treaty is a sentance of deatt
 If it was not meant to be that, the
 it is a monstrous mistake, arisin from the original sin of one-side 1 Information.
 Now let us examine how far it ! founded in justice or on general e1 . pediency. What is it's ethical justifica 7 ton, what is it's promise?
 '"The Allied powers hold the var \ | quished countries responsible for tn t l outbreak of the war, there is profes = sedly an element of retribution in tn !. terms of peace offered to them. Blu :, if justice is to prevail, retributio = must be proportioned to guilt. Ant as no belligerent country on our sid a neither Germany, nor Austria, nc
 Bulgaria has been afflicted by peao
 terms nearly as cruel as those pro
 posed to Hungary, It would appea
 that Hungary is to be considered { c the most guilty of all.
 " Now this is a self-evident absurd
 ity Hungary was not quite an indt n pendent country at the time before tt .s war. She was in connection wit If Austria and had to act with her
 all foreign matters She had ther