Evening star., 1938-12-29
Nazis Warn Hungary
To Respect Vienna
I Territorial Award
Foreign Office Journal
Stotes Attitude on
Recent Incidents
By WALLACE R. DEUEL..

BY WALLACE r. DEUEL.,
CHICAGO Daily News Foresn CORRESPONDENT.
BERLIN, Dec. 29.--Speaking in
the name of the Italians as we'll as
their own, the Nazis today warned
Hungary anew that the November
Vienna award, fixing Czecho-Slo-
vakia's new frontier with Hungary,
must be respected. Today's warning
was issued by the German Diplo-
matic-Political Correspondence. Of
fetal organ of the foreign Office here.
Recent incidents in the town of
6urany, which the Germans and
italians took away from Czecho-
Slovakia and gave to Hungary tn
the Vienna award, provide the occa-
sion for the Correspondence article
today.
ut must unfortunately be estab-
lished that disagreeable local Incl
dents have been increasing in num-
Der In the Slovak- Hungarian from
tier region" it declared. "On both
sides wishes are openly expressed
looking toward change of frontier
as at present drawn. All this does
not correspond to the spirit of the
Vienna arbitral award"
Addressed to Both Sides.
The device which todays article
employs hereof seeming to speak
with equal firmness to both the
Czechs and the Hungarians-is used
throughout. 1t is obviously intend
ed to spare the feelings of the
Hungarians, however, rather than
being based On any real thought that
the Czechs have any idea of trying
to defy the Vienna award. The
Czechs are completely subject to
German wishes in this, as in other
matters, and it is only the Hunga-
rians-and the Poles-who have
been trying to seize even more Czech
territory than they were awarded
at Vienna.
The spirit of the Vienna arbitral
award, which was accepted as bind
ing by both sides, called for the final
establishment of a good neighbor
relationship in place of the dan
gerous struggle which had been
going on in this area.
"The award itself had already
foreseen that not all the wishes and
all the needs of the two parties
could be satisfied in respect to sep
aration of peoples Gin the drawing
of the frontier. Otherwise, it
would not have been specified in
the award that both parties should
conclude more detailed agreements
for the protection of alien national
groups.
I'm accordance with these consid-
erations. both had on the one hand
to accept the fact that-apart from
other aspirations-not all their ma
tjonal demands could be satisfied,
and, on the other hand, had to see
to it that an assured life of their
own be guaranteed to minorities,
which, for their part, must now be-
come reconciled to their remaining
within state dominated by an alien
people.
1T is self-evident that Germany
and Italy expect that the arbitral
award achieve the desired pur-
pose" the correspondence concludes.
First there is involved the securing
of justice for national groups, and,
furthermore, the replacing of dan
gerous strife in this part of Europe
by harmonious relationship be-
tween nationally-satisfied peoples.
On the part of the Hungarians, as
well as that of the Slovaks, all that
has been accomplished should not
be forgotten, nor the fact that if
friction does nevertheless develop
there is no occasion to make it
worse, but as was provided in
Vienna-to eliminate it by good
will"
The Vienna award has been a
source of much dissatisfaction, Bit
terness and at times a good deal of
outright guerrilla warfare ever since
it was made. The Czechs were bit
terly disappointed by the heavy
losses the award involved-more
than 1000 square miles and approx
imately 100000 inhabitants being
granted to Hungary. The Czechs,
however, were in such a state of de-
moralization that they were unable
to do anything about the award.
The Poles and Hungarians, on the
other hand, also were bitterly dis
satisfied because the award did pre-
serve a vestigial Carpathian Ukraine
and failed to give Poland and Hun
gary common frontier.