The evening herald. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1906-1942, 1920-04-09
SAYS HUNGARY
RUINED BY
PEACE TREATY

PARIS. Mar. 10, tBy MalD -
Count Albert ApponyI, head OF the
Hungarian peace delegation, In the
second and concluding article on the
Hungarian peace treaty which he
prepared for the Associated Press,
calls for n plcbiscite CT the inhabi-
tants OF tho regions severed from
Hungary by tho Versailles treaty.
He says:
Comparing Hungary as sue ...s
before the war with the new states
created or aggrandized through dis
memberment, the situation is this:
THE Hungary OF old 10 the finest
natural geographic unity In Europe.
whose limits are fixed by mountains
and rivers; whose parts are econom-
ically interdependcnt, 80 as to make
tho whole almost self-supportlng. For
more than 1000 years this part OF
Europe never gave trouble to the
rest, rather averted from It what
ever trouble threatened It's tranquil
ity and safety from the east. While
historic Hungary stood. the trouble |
some area OF Europe was as distant
from the center as the Balkan PEN
insula.
ITO make 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 hte racial principle. ire
spective OF geography, history, or
political economy. We make the
discovery that these new
constructions are racially quite as
mixed as Hungary has been
Count Apponyi declares that 54.5
pcr cent OF the 100000 inhabi-
tants OF Hungary proper" were
l6.1 Rumanian, 10.7 Slo-
wax. 1914 German and the rest Serb,
Ruthenian or miscellaneous. Com
pairing these to the newly organized
or aggrandized states he says that
the population OF Czecho-Slovakia
has claimed parts OF Hungary con-
taining 100000 persons OF which
~ per cent are Slovak and 81 per
cent Magyar or German. Rumania
claims territories on which live about
8 100000 souls Of which So per cent
are Rumanian and 43 per cent Mag
var or German. The population OF
parts Of Hungary annexed by Jugo-
Slavia. says Count Apponyi, is only
% per cent Jugo-Slav, 33 pre- cent
Magyar and 37 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 artificially built up on her
'uins; the difference consists only in
his. that Hungary was possessed of
,very other principle of unity. while
he new states have none. absolutely
lone. What is still worse, the lead
,rship In them will be transferred to
aces OF inferior culture. the results
II which we may already notice, after
me years occupation 70 the terri
ories torn from Hungary. There is
! wanton destruction of cultural val
les, universities, high schools and
'thers. On the territory occupied by
aumanians, 5000 grammar schools
ire deserted, the former teacher
laving been expelled mad nobody be-
ng found to supplement him. in con-
equence Of which more than 200, 900
hildren are left without education of
my sort. There is q conspicuously
over level Of public functionaries
md the general prevalence of semi
'arbarous methods Of government.
what can result from this state
4 thingsf VIII those people who
re violently severed from their be- :