Evening star., 1938-10-31
Berlin Ain,inq
Al Revision Of
Triianon. Treaty
Pact to Play Essential
Role in PorIey on
Czech Dispute

BACKGROUND
Treaty OF TridnOn, allies
peace treaty 1oith Hungary, strip
ped latter OF large number of
her border areas, giving them
to Csechoslouakia, Run1anid and
YugoslaDid. In diSmembernent
of Czech territory by Germany,
Hungary came torWurd 1Oith Po-
land to demand their share.
Poland got Teschen area. but
area Hungary 1UiH get is still in
dispute. Arbitration by Italy and
= Germany agreed to.
Sy the Associated Press.
BERLIN, Oct. 31-The German
foreign Office organ declared today
that revision of the Trianon treaty
which fixed Hungary's postwar
boundaries, would play an essential
role" in the Vienna conference Wed
nesday in which Italy and Germany
will arbitrate Hungary's territorial
claims on Czechoslovakia.
The Deutsche Politisch-Diplo-
matische Korrespondenz declared
that the Trianon treaty had violated
Woodrow Wilson's principles and
that now 'it is a question of cor
recting these injustices and return
ing to the Magyar Hungarian) peo-
pie what was stolen from them in
f1agrant violation of chronological
principles"
Meanwhile German circles en-
phasized that Germany and Italy
would settle the Hungarian -Czecho-
slovak problem without help from
the two other Munich powers, Brit
ain and France.
The Trianon treaty of 1920 in
which Hungary accepted terms die
tated by the victorious allied pow-
erS, gave slices of Hungarian terri
tory to Czechoslovakia, Rumania
and Yugoslavia.
Rumania and Yugoslavia, on the
allied side, received much larger
areas than did Czechoslovakia, but
no mention is made of those TWO
nations in the foreign Office organs
broad statement of German policy.
Danubian Appeasement Aim.
Officially neither of them-Czecho-
slovakias S neighbors and allies in
the Little Entente have been
named as likely to come under the
arbitrator's knife at Vienna. But
the Korrespondenz indicated that
questions to be settled went far be-
yond the limited questions of the
new boundary Of the Hungarian
Slovakian border and that appease-
ment must be brought to the whole
> Danubian area.
1.-TWO major powers Germany and
italy, have a manifest interest in
stable, fruitful solution of the stu
alton in Central Europe" the pub
lication said. "One must expect
therefore an equitable arbitration
decision which will carry all ele-
ments for the harmonious develop
ment of the Danubian Basin"
The settlement will not be easy,
the organ said adding that nationals
ity must be the basis of sediment
as it was in the transfer of the
Sudetenland to Germany. 1t con-
tinued:
THE example given by the Reich
in not putting extreme interpreta-
tions on ethnology, although it would
manifestly have been justified in
doing SO, gives the Reich the right
to suppose that the two parties in
question will give proof of the same
wisdom"
Two Asked Arbitration.
Czechoslovakia and Hungary, un-
able by themselves to resolve Hun
garian claims to Czechoslovak terri
tory because of predominant Hun
garian population, accepted invita-
tions to meet with representatives of
the Fascist powers in Vienna on
Wednesday,
The two disputants asked the ar
bitration last week.
The Hungarian claims grew from
circumstances of the Munich accord
of october l, by which Great Britain,
France, Italy and Germany agreed
that Czechoslovakia should give to
Germany Czechoslovak Sudeten
areas.
The Munich accord provided also
that if Hungary did not reach an
agreement with Czechoslovakia on
similar claims to territory within
three months the four powers should
confer again.
An official announcement here
yesterday, however, said only the
foreign ministers of Germany and
Italy would meet with the foreign
ministers of Hungary and Czecho-
slovakia.
The chief issue appeared to be
VINO should possess Bratislava, Mum
kacs, Kassa and Mira, border cities
now on the Czechoslovak side of
the line.