Magyar külpolitika, 1930 (11. évfolyam, 1-7. szám)

1930 / 4. szám - How Hungary was doomed

September 1930 HUNGÁRIA LLOYD 23 gion, for expenence has taüght thle minorities that the result is not redress but punitive measuxes. As ít is well known, the prótfection of the Leágue of Nations has proved completely inefíectuál. In Central Europe the validity of the injurious treaties wil] Por a shorl time be secured by thai pplitica] andmilitary alliance known as the Little Entente, which, relying upon French support, is ready to prevenl by Eorce any modification. But that system instead of making for security merely adds danger to the situation. lt pronounces a vető upon all peaceable attempts at improving matters and deprives the people of evén the hope thai one day withoul a war they will be able to better 1 heir lot. Life consists of change; but the Little Entente policy is retrogressive. It wants to put a brake on time itself, and with this strangling reaction is preparing the way for a terrible explosíon in the valley of the Danube. Incessanl humiliation lasting ten years already provokes a unión of the oppressed, a new system of counter-alliances at the head of which we shall find Etaly. The next year will see the two opposing eamps drawn up for battle, and there is no pacifist eloquence which could prevent Germany in her straits from joining the side figliting against the treaties. The outlines of the former Triple Alliance are thus given, opposed to the oppressive French group, and decrepit Europe, powerless tó solve her own problem, has stepped upon the fatál road which leads to the horrors of a new war. * In July of this year, at the generál meeting of the Communist Party, the omnipotent Stalin, outlining the dissension rife among capitalist States of the West, drew the conclusion that within a short time the world, nauseated with fresh bloodshecl, will fali, like ripe fruit, into the lap of the Moscow Internationale. In my opinion, that expectation is not unjustified. ín 1935 Italy and the French Little Untente group will he ready with their military preparations, upon which untold millions are already being spent, and, if they want to avöid their equipments growing rusty, they must fire off their expensive cannon in 1937 at the latest. At that date Germany, struggling with a growing economie crisis, will he two years in arrears with reparations. The up-to-date reorganisation of its industries and the agricultural crisis — according to a computalion made by offjcers of the gene ral staff — will have brought the number of unemployed np to eighl millions, and, if the State is anyhow Eorced to supporl them, it will make sol diers of them, and use the powerful army thus created to carve its way towards the open air, for lack of which Germany is stifling. By 1934 the minor Danube States will have exhausted their foreign credit; by 1937 over-taxation will have robbed the peasants of their last penny; the bankruptcy of the States and of priváté industries will have swalloved up the last assets, and the deáth-like stillness will be broken only by the couiplaints of the tortured minorities. This is the momehf when the disarmed will storm the gates ol' their prisons to Eorce a way ont of ruin with fists, One spark will be sufficient to blow up the whole barrel of gunpowder. I shall be very mueh mistaken it that spark is not struck in Yugoslavia, where the tension is highest, where already two Balkan wars have originated, and where, in 1!)14 the fateful revolver was fired in Serajevo. Át the latest in 1337, a new European war is bleyitable, for in the préseid slate of dissension the slightest fire cannot be localised and the first spark will run through the ramified network of allies and counter-allies, igniting the whole. But that war will be no test of hravery, no aréna where a modern Horatius or Curtius might do combat, but an orgy of niachinery, hacilli, and gases, the annihilation of peaoefnl cities, a hecatomb of millions of innocent women and children. The new war will be the destruction of OUT two-thousand-year-old Christian civilisation, and it will clear the way for the evangel of corruption which, spreading furtively from Moscow, like somé prairie fire, will overrun a world benumbed with horror and its blood-red flames will devour everything we hold as high and sacred. How Hungary was doomed. Authentic text of the revelations of Dávid Hunter Miller, American Legal Adviser to the Peace Conference. A few months ago the already voluminons literature of the peace treaties received its richest contribution in the work of Dávid Hunter Miller who acted as American Legal Adviser to the Peace Conference and published, under the title „My Diary", the notes he made at the time of the actual negotiations. The callous disregard of elementary justice and huinanity in drawing the present day bouhdary lines of Hungary could not be demonstrated with more documentary force before the world than put Porward by Dávid Bunter Miller's Minutes of the May 9th. 1 *> 1M session ol' (he Supreme Council. [t is well ihat we should reprint the American revelation in its authentic text. Let our friends ábroad see that over the feeble protest of State Seeretary Lansing two millión Hungarians were know ingly cast under foreign yoke, that in princiide territorial concessions were granted to Austria beimé the thought of such demands occurred to this state, and let 'them alsó know Ihat Benes openly deceived the Supreme Council in his statement Ihat still no less than 638.000 Slovaks will be left in mutilated Bungary „which might be regarded as a guarantee for the good treatment of the Hungárián minorities in Czechoslovakia". The world knows from ceaseless complaints of oppressed Hungarians that no such guarantee ever worked, that there is u.; Slovakian minority in Hungary worthwhile to mention and that the only possible control over tjie destiny of the minorities through the League of Nations proved to be a rank failure and the keenest disappointment of international diplomacy. Let the notes of Dávid Hunter Miller speak for Hungary. Minutes uf the supreme council, May <Jth, 1930.