Amerikai Magyar Értesítő, 1990 (26. évfolyam, 1-12. szám)

1990-10-01 / 10. szám

1990. október

Amerikai Magyar Értesítő

TRIANON: 1920-1990

Part II.

On June 28, 1914» the Austrian Archduke, Francis Ferdinand, and his wife were assassinated by 3 Serbian students to force Austri- an-Hungary into war. It is now well known from later-published secret documents that the Russian government, French political leaders, and much of the Serbian goverment, including high-ranking military officials, the king and crown-prince were all involved in the plot. Austria inquired of Serbian government what its intentions were regarding the assassination. On July 7th, an Austro-Hungarian ministerial council was held. There were 4 Austrians and only l each of Polish and Slav members of the Austrian Government. Only 1 Hungarian, its Prime Minister, Count Tisza, was invited. This council of ministers adopted a resolution saying, among other things: "The council of ministers is prepared to adopt the view of the Royal Hungarian Premier, according to wich the mobilization is not to take place until after concrete demands have been addressed and after being refused, and an ultimatum has been sent... All present, EXEPT THE ROYAL HUNGARIAN PREMIER, hold the belief that a purely diplomatic success, even if it is ended with a glaring humiliation of Serbia, Would be worthless*.

In 1916, the Mexican bandit, Pancho Villa and his *army* penetrated U.S. territory and robbed and killed American citizens and soldiers. The U.S.A. promtly sent into Mexico its own expeditionary force, under Pershing, to pursue and punish the Mexican bandits, and nobody challenged the U.S. right.

The Austro-Hungarians did not do this much. They only asked the Serbians to clean up the situation, dissolve the secret organization responsible for the assassination "Narodna Obdrana*» and punich the assassins. Instead, on July 25, 1914 at 3 a.m. -- 9 hours before the expiration of the Austro-Hungarian ultimatum — the Serbs ordered a mobilization of their armed forces. Austrian replied 6 hours later with a PARTIAL mobilization. But Dobrovelski, Chief of RUSSIAN Army Staff revealed, after World War I, that on the EVENING OF JULY 25, a preparatory, secret mobilization was ordered IN RUSSIA, too. REMEMBER NOW THE DEFINITION OF *AG- RESSOR* GIVEN EARLIER.

On July 29, Russia ordered a full, general mobilization against Austria-Hungary and Germany. The same day, the French government

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urged the Russians to HASTEN the mobilization, but to do it secretly.

Hungary had only reduced sovereignty in the dual monarchy. We mentioned already that the Hungarian minister-president, Tisza, was outvoted 6:1 on the Imperial Council held on July 3rd, 1914. Thus, article 161, quoted at the beginning is null and void on the basis of international law.

The killing of the archduke and his wife was the 7th attempt in four years against high dignitaries of the Austro-Hungarian monarchy. After the end of the war, Serbs erected a monument in Sarajevo to the memory of the 3 terrorist assassins, who were a mixture of the anarchism of Bakunin, the shauvin-nationalism of Mazzini, and the communism of Marx.

The second condemnation of Hungary was based on the big lie of *the thousand-year old Hungarian oppression*. The refutations of this false accusation are multiple, ill During the "thousand years*, from 1526 to 1867, Hungary had no sovereignity, or a very limited one. Thus only 650 years remain. (2) The oppression was very strange indeed’ On the basis of census documents kept by the churches, the number of Roumanians (Vlach), Serbs and Slovaks (Tót) increased progressively, while the number of Hungarians decreased. In 1914 they were 6 Roumanien justices in the Budapest Royal Appellate Court and in the State Supreme Court. The Catholic prince-primate of Hungary was John, Cardinal Csernoch, a Slovak who in 1920 himself refuted the treaty of Trianon, declaring emphatically *If the Hungarians would have oppressed the miniroties for a thousand years, today there would not be any of them around*. (31 The Chech, Roumanian, and Serb agents in Western Europe and the U.S.A., with the help of media easily convinced governments and diplomats that Hungarian society was feudalistic, antidemocratic, outmoded, and multi-national. THE NEW STATES WOULD BE HOMOGENEOUS’ In the decade after World War I, the fabricants of the treaties were alarmed when new statistics proved that, instead of homogeneous states, in Czechoslovakia the minorities were 54.1% (Germans, Slovaks, Hungarians, Ruthenes, Poles and Roumanians) and in Yugoslavia 67% (Croa- tians, Macedonians, Slovenes, Albanians, Hungarians, Germans, Roumanians and Gypsies). These two countries compared unfavorably with the previous Hungarian kingdom which had only 45.5% minority nationals. Only in Roumania was the reigning majority 65%.

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