Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-08-31
Vienna Pact Sets Up
Nazi States Within
Hungary and Rumania
PRONUNCIATION of New
Order Foreshudows One Of
Wars Important Results
By WALLACE r.. DEUEL.,

Chicago Daily News Foreign Correspondent
BERLIN, Aug. 31.-The European
war completed its first year today
to the accompaniment of promulga-
ton of a new order in the Balkans
which probably foreshadows what
may well be one of the most i'm
portant results of the war If the
axis powers win 1.-THE setting up
of German and italian states within
ties in the conquered and otherwise
controlled countries.
There can be little, if any doubt
as to the significance of the new
status of the German minorities in
Hungary and Rumania as provided
for in the axis arbitral award an
nounced at Vienna last night.
Hitler has repeatedly declared
that what he defines as the rights
of German minorities everywhere in
the world must be respected, and
in the axis abitral award he has
now defined those rights. They
amount, in substance, to the setting
up of Nazi States within states" in
both Hungary and Rumania. Buda-
pest and Bucharest are the first cap
itals to be required to guarantee
these rights, but if the axis powers
win the war, the Balkan capitals
will by no means be the last to be
required to do so.
Two Agreements Are Same.
The two agreements are Identical.
The German-Hungarian agreement.
whose text is published here today,
makes the following provisions:
1.-The Royal Hungarian govern
ment guarantees the members of
the German national groups the
possibility of maintaining their ma
tional character unimpaired"
The first sentence of article l
reads:
1T (the Hungarian government
will take measures for insuring that
the members of the German ma
tional groups suffer no disadvan-
tages of any sort in any sphere be-
cause of their membership in the
national (German) groups and
! their avowal of the National So
cialist philosophy of life" The
agreement goes on to list other
guarantees:
The Nazi National Bund of Ger
mans in Hungary is recognized as
the sole general organization of all
Germans in the country. The Ger
mans are granted the right also to
organize for specific purposes, such
as youth training, sport and cul-
tural activities.
Germans are also promised their
share, proportional to their per-
centage of the total population, in
all government positions. NaZi
schools are to have complete free
dom to teach German youths.
German Official Language.
The use of the German language
nay not be interferred with. In
constitutes one-third, or more, of
the total population, German is also
to be accepted as an official language
on a par with Hungarian.
The German minority is granted
freedom of assembly, of speech, and
of the press. 1t also has the right
to set up it's own co-operatives and
relief and other economic organiza-
tons.
Hungary promises to make no
attempt to aSSimilate the German
minority. Specifically, Germans have
the right to use German names.
Members of the minority are to be
allowed to travel freely between
Hungary and the Reich and to COM
municate freely with the mother
country.
Such Germans as are transferred
by the arbitral award from Ruma-
MAN to Hungarian sovereignty are
to be allowed to move to the Reich
If they wish to do so.
The transfers of territory from
one Balkan country to another may
foreshadow nothing of vital interest
. to the rest of the world, but the
special sovereign status conferred on
German minorities in the Balkans
foreshadows similar developments
elsewhere of which the world has
only heard the beginning, if Ger
many and Italy win the war.
(copyright, 1910, Chicago Daily News, Inc)