Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1920-03-24
Count AppssyiGises
Views Oh Hungarian
Treaty 70 The Pres,

Paris, March 6s--Cou ALBERT Ap-
ponyi, head OF the Hungarian peace.
delegation. in the second and conciud-
Ing article on, the HunEafian peace
treaty which he prepared for the Az.
the inhabitants OF theregions severed
from Hungary by the Versailles
treaty. He says
Comparing Hungary as she was
before hc war with the new states
created or aggrandized through dis,
memberment, the situation is this:
The Hungary OF old is the finest
natural geographic unity in Europe.
whose limits are fixed by mountains
and rivers; whose parts are economic
ally interdepcndent, so as to make the
whole almost self supporting. For
more than 1000 years this part of
Europe never gave trouble to the rest.
rather averted from it whatever
trouble threatened its tranquility n
safety from the east. While historic
Hungary stood, the troublesome area
of Europe was as distant from the
center as the Balkan peninsula.
ITO max the moral cohesion of
her people perfect, one factor alone
was wanting: racial unity. On this
plea was her dissection planned. New
constructions arise on her ruins,
based on the racal principle, irrespec-
LlHeA VI ID HllISlOIS IL pOtllAShI'
economy. We make the astonishing
discovery that these new constructions
are racially quite as mixed as Hun
gary has been" ss
Count Apponyi declares that 54.5
per cent of the Is, O00,O 900 inhabitants
of Hungary proper" were Magyars,
ISL .Rumanian, 1917 Slovak, 1914 Ger
man and the rest Serb, Ruthenian or
miscellaneous, Comparing these to
II he reuy11, ornoniyaA or agra ICED
states, he says that h population OF
Czecho-Slovakia has claimed parts of
Hungary containing $4,000 persons,
of which 40 per Cent are Slovak n
81 per cen Magyar or German. Ru-
mania claims territories on which live
about .. 1850. 900 souls. of which SO per
cent are Rumanian andN43 per cent
of parts of Hungary annexed by Jugo-
slavia, avs Count A%ppo9yi, is only %
per cent Jugo-Slav, 50 per cent
Magyar and 81 per cent German.
Count Appoint continues:
The Only Difference.
"Thes figures show that the only
principle Of organic unity that has
been wanting to Hungary's racial unity
is likewise wanting to the states ar
tificiallS built up on her ruins: the diff
ference consists only in this. that Hun
SdIS WAS pOSSeSStu oI every oliASA
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
wears occupation Of the territories
torn from Hungary. There is a wan
ton destruction of cultural values, uni
versities. high schools and others. On
the territory occupied by Rumanians,
5000 grammar schols are deserted,
the former teacher Having been ex-
PEELED and nobody being found to
supplement him in consequence of
which more than 800, 900 children are
left without education of any sort.
There is a conspicuously lower level
Of public fun%ctionaries and the gen
eral prevalence OF semi-barbarous
methods of government.
What can result from this state
of things? Viii those people who are
violently severed from Their beloved
old associations only to be subjected
to alien government of an inferior
sort-those $500, 900 Magyars and
Germans torn from Hungary-will
they ever be reconciled to d~enationali-
zation Implying economic losses ana
cultural retroRression? Can the con-
science Of humanity tolerate such Q
downfall of millions2. Anyhow it~ h