Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-06-07
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS BLOCKS
EUROPE ECONOMIC PEACE
Unity of Hungarian Race Destroyed by
Artificial Frontiers Set Up by
Peace Conference.

march from the frontier, but 1t is ac-
tually within range Of the wartime
Big Bertha.
In this situation the vhel~ Hungarian
people cry out to this world for JUS
tice. Their demand in threefold: Return
of those regions, clearly defined and
easily identified, in which there Is .
solid Hungarian majority; protection
for the Magyar minoritieS in areas
where they are a considerable portion
of the total population-these are the
two major issues. Finally. at soms
future time they ask a fair vote ir
Slovakia, the Banat and Transylvania
old Hungarian provinces in which there
is. respectively, a Slav- and Latir
majority, to determine the will OF th'
inhabitants.
This third proposal is more or lesr
chimerical. 1t is hard to believe, ~
the Hungarians do. that the lost prov
inces with alien majcrities would vol
unfairly choose TO return TO the ole
home. But the Hungarians do believ,
this and support it with endless ar
guments. Concomitantly they con-
cede this proposal to be without con
temporary importance.
Hungarians MiSrepresented.
Hungary's enemies have successfully
built up the picture Of a vengeful. pas
sionate. unreasonable people, militaris-
| tic and chauyinistic. of a handful OF
aristocrats exploiting their own peopla
and eager to regain lost provinces in
| habited by alien serfs. And the Hun
garians have not known how to state
their own case, to catch the ears Of the
statesmen and peoples of the west, all
eager to have a settled Europe and irri-
tated by any inconvenient appeal fo'
| disturbing justice. But / confess m:
| 10, d.. fa1 rfyifh liz
| men, beginning with Bethlen the prima
minister and Karolyi. the foreign min
lister, and continued with men ano
women of every class and sort. left nc
| such impression. Rather, / had the
sense of reasonable men. eager to FIND
some peaceful and sensible way out OF
a situation which was intolerable, bu,
always fatally handicapped by the fact
/ that for them as individuals, and a.
statesmen, it was impossible to do what
economic common sense dictated while
political madness still held sway in tho
camp of their neighbors.
! For France and her allies this Hume
garian situation has a very clear means
! ing If Bethlen, as he has foreshad.
owed. takes his country into an Austro'
German tariff union, which is the first
step in political association, Mite
Europa under German hegemony is as
sured That involves the destruction o.
| the present French system in Europe
and must Immediately compromise
French security in the presence OF .
Germany thus magnifled. 1t isolates
! Czechoslovakia. thus transformed into
narrow peninsula almost surrounded
by German-Magyar territories. It
brings German influence to the Ru-
it foreshadows German domination
from the Baltic to the Aegean and
Black Seas.
Neither Hungarian craftsmanship nor
public opinion desires any such suo-
mersion in German sea. Historically
the great mission of the Magyar has
been to keep the Turk south Of the
lower Danube and to hold the German
| at the Leith. The great figures ana
| the brilliant pages of Hungarian his
tory belong equally to the fight against
! the Teuton and the Osmanl. The
| Turk has vanished, but the German re-
mains and. unless the Hungarian here
after stands fast against German pene-
! tration. the eventual outcome OF the
Wcrld War and the peace treaties may
be the establishment of new German
Empire, the Third Reich" of HITLER.
| far more formidable than those OF the
past.
Budapest Key TO Future.
Literally, then the key of the fu-
ture Of Europe is in Budapest. If
France end her allies continue to deny
| to the Magyars the justice which IS SO
clearly their due. III the e;td Budapest,
as Vienna has already done, will throw
its lot in with Berlin. That is the logger
view More Immediately all orderly
and sane reconstruction o. Ell -ooe
economically remains out or the ques-
ton. French fear, little entente ap-
prehension. based upon the recognition
| that little entente frontiers are
founded upon violence. will remain the
obstacle which they now constitute.
Hungary is not thinking G. war:
there is no more chauyiniSm in Buds-
pest than in Washington. wf.Ai Is 81
once tragic and moving is the universal
conviction that right and justice have
lost their influence in this world. That
and a subliminal faith based on
millennial history. Across the mutilated
| frontiers. in the graveyards the new
masters have thrown down the head
stones which bore the traditional
phrase I'VE shall rise again." because
of its possible political significance. In
| this detail you see all the spirit Of the
present masters in these old Hungarian
| marches. But talk with the Magyars
! on either side of these frontiers of VIC
lence and you will perceive that for
! them the stones are still there and tbs
political significance of the religious
phrase endures. the faith in the resur-
rection of the national body remains.