Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1920-03-25


man. Rumania claims territories
on which live about 100000 sous
of which SO per cent are Rumanian
and az per cent Magyar or German.
The population of parts of Hungary
annexed by Jugo-Slavia, says
Count Apponyi, is only % per cent
Jugo-Slav SO per cent Magyar and
q per cent German. Count Apron
.yi continues;
These figures still show that
the only principle or organic unity
that has been wanting to Hungary
racial unity is likewise wanting to
the states artificially built up on
her ruins; the difference consists
only in this, that Hungary was
possessed of every other 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
occupations of the territories torn
from Hungary. There is a wanton
destruction OF cultural values, uni
versities, high schools and others
On the territory occupied by Ru-
manians, 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 left without
education Of any sort. There is a
eonspicuously lower level of public
functionaries and the general
prevalence of semi barbarous
methods of government
What can result from this state
of things? Will those people who
are violently severed from their
beloved old associations only to be
to alien government of
an inferior sort-those 1900, 900
Magyars and Germans torn from
Hungary-will they ever be recon-
ciled to Standardization Implying
economic losses and cultural retro
gression? Can the conscience of
tolerate such a downfall
Of millions?l Anyhow it is certain
that those new constructions, with
no vital principle in them. will be
distracted by the permanence of a
most violent. because most legiti-
mate, irredentism and that through
them eastern and central Europe
will know no rest till the equilib-
rum represented by old Hungary
is restored.
These facts answer the question
how far the destruction of Hungary
and the constructions planned on
her ruins might promote the gem
eral welfare of mankind? 1t would
confer on our part Of Europe the
following blessings
Racial discussions not assuaged
but embittered; permanent unrest,
danger of new wars.
Economic difficulties enhanced,
social dangers aggravated.
Cultural retrogression in gov
eminent, learning, general stand
ard of education.
But how does liberty fare In the
peace treaty? In its
terms millions of men would be
driven from one allegiance to an
other, without being consulted as to
their wishes. In the case of nearly
half of them, of Magyars and Ger
mans who should become Czecho-
Rumanian or Jugo- Slav
guhiects Won NAV confidently as
sert that II would he done against
their will that n means moral tor
tire to them. But even the Slavs
and Rumanians would be trans
planted to states racially more
homogeneous can simply be sun
nosed' TO long for such change and
there are many SYMPTOMS indica-
tive of the reverse, chiefly among
the Slovaks Ruthenians and the
Roman Catholic -Slavs.
"There is only one way to settle
that question with a result that can
no more be challenged; il is the