Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1920-04-15
APPOINT DECLARES PRESENT HUNGARY
 UNNATURAL. UNITY
Old Nation Was Splendid Ex. ample, He
 States

peaSS IieaIy "ilCH ne prepared for
 The Associated Press, calls for plo-
 biscite of the inhabitants of the re-
 gions severed from Hungary by the
 Versailles treaty. He says:
 Comparing Hungary as she was
 before the war with the new state
 created or agcrandized through dis
 mcmberment, the situation is this:
 "The Hungary of old is the fines t
 natural geographic unity in Europe.
 whose limits are fixed by mountains
 and rivers; whose parts are econo-
 mically interdependent, so as to make
 the whole almost self-supportln2. For more than 1000 years this nart
 of Europe never gave trouble to tie
 rest, rather averted from it whatevnr
 trouble threatened it's tranouilify and safety from the East. White historic Hungary stood, the trouble some area of Europe was as distar+ from the center as the Balkan pen insula.
 "To 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 rum. based on the racial principles. ire
 pective of geography, history CT poii
 tical economy. We make the ast,n- lshlng discovery that these new con structlons are racially quite as mixed as Hungary has been."
 Count Apponyi declares that 54.5 per cent. of the 18,000,000 inhabitants of Hungary proper" were Magyars, 161 Rumanian, 107 Sloval:. 1O.4 Ger man and the rest Serb, Ruthenjan CT miscellaneous. Comparing these to the newly organized or aggrandized states he says that the populati ton of CzechoSlovakia has claimed parts of Hungary containing 3,570,000 persons of which AZ per cent. are Slovak and 37 per cent. Magyar or German. Ru- mania claims territories on which live about 5,260,000 souls of which 53 per cent. are Rumanian and 13 per cent. Magyar or German. The population of parts of Hungary an nexed by Jugo-Slavia, says Count Apponyi, is only 22 per cent Jugo- Slav, 33 per cent. Magyar and 27 per cent German. Count Apponyi con tinues:
 "These figures show that the only i principle of organic unity that has been wanting to Hungarys racial un- ity 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 worse still, the leader ship in them will be transferred to races of inferior culture, the results ot which we may already notice, at- ter one years occupation of the ter i rltcries torn from Hungary. There | IS wanton destruction of cultural values, universities, high schools, and others.s On the territory occu- pied by Rumanians, 5000 grammar schools are deserted, the former teacher having been expelled and no- body being found to supplement him, In consequence of which more than 100000 children are left without conspicuously lower level of public functonaries and the general preva- fence of semi barbarous methods oi government.
 What can result from this state of 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 4,5OO,000 Mag vars and Germans torn from Hun gafy-Will they ever be reconciled to alization implying economic losses and cultural retrogression m? Can the conscience of humanity tol- crate such downfall of millions? Anyhow it is certain that those new constructions, with no vital principle In them, will be distracted by the permanence of a most violent, be- cause most legitimate, irredentsm and that through them Eastern and central Europe will know no rest, UT the equilibrium represented by old Hungary is restored.
 These facts answer the question now far the destruction of Hungary ana the constructions planned on her rulns might promote the general well rare of mankind? It would confer on our part of Europe the follow. .ng 'blessings' T Racial discussions not assaugcd put embittered; permanent unrest, implying danger of new wars.
 Economic difficulties enhanced, thereby social dangers aggravated.
 Cultural retrogression in govern ment, learning, general standard of education.
 But how does liberty fare in the proposed peace-treaty? In it's terms millions of men would be driven from one allegiance to another, without I9elng consulted as to their wishes. m the case of nearly half of them, ol Magyars and Germans who should become Czecho-Slovak, Rumanian or g,ugo-Slav subjects, you may confi- uehtly assert that it would be done against their will, that it means mo. ta ral torture to them. But even the oiaVs and Rumanians who would be , ,.fahsplanted to states racially more :, homogeneous, can simply be sup f posed to long for such change and / 'nefe are many symptoms indicative 1; oi the reverse, chiefly among the /, oiovaks, Ruthenians and the Roman { catholic Jugo-Slavs. 7 4l There is only one way to settle snat question with a result that can S no more be challengod:, It is the :, P pl pI1lebscite. And the plebiscite is what hungary asks for and insists on. In ' every region claimed by our neigh 2 DOTS, so do we say, let the people de- r e'tae; we internationally submit to us ., decision; we do not want a sin 4 gre soul to remain with us but by 1i an act of free will. We have been / ,,aharged with oppression of the non | magyar nationalities; well, instead ~ gong into argument we propose ,o make those same people whom we gre alleged to oppress, judge of our ,ase' If we have really been op-