Krónika, 1945 (2. évfolyam, 2-11. szám)
1945-09-15 / 9. szám
VOL IE II. ÉVFOLYAM 1945 SZEPTEMBER 15. NO. 9. SZÁM. PRINCIPLES OF THE DANUBIAN POLICY (Editor’s note: This article contains the views and suggestions of ARCHDUKE OTTO of HUNGARY for the solution of the Danubian problem.) The two main factors of the European balance of powers in Central and Eastern Europe are the German Empire and Soviet Russia. After the last peace-treaties these two enormous national blocks were separated from each other by twelve independent states, located throughout the whole continent from Finland in the Arctic Sea to Greece on the Mediterranean. The European balance of power depended mainly on the security and independent life of those countries. If the Pangermanist or Russian-communist forces could penetrate in that zone, or attack it with combined forces, the European balance would be disturbed or even destroyed. This danger was greatly increased by the fact, that both powers added to their imperalistic expansionism the ideological, dynamic Messianism of the National-socialist and communist world revolution. The area thus exposed to the eastern and western aggressive imperialism is very important, extending over 1,250,000 square miles, on which live more than 100 million people. But this area, containing a quarter of the whole European population, is almost incapable of defending itself: Divided into twelve parts, it is not organized for a common defense. The 12 smaller states may be divided, by historical, geopolitical and other points of view, into these groups:" the Polish-Baltic group, including the states north of the Carpaths; the states of the Central- Danubian valley, and finally he Balkan states. Each one of these groups came from a different huge empire: .— The northern states from Russia, the Central-Danubian states from Austria-Hungary, and the Balkan states from the Turkish empire. This common past means even today a permanent traditional, cultural and economic link between these countries. (Continued on Page 2) lo Rumania went I ransylvania. Hrr< Nagyvárad, etc. lo Jugoslavia, heir ot prc-YYar Serbia, went Bácska, wlvere the Hungarians stood olf the I urkish hordes. i o Austria went Hungary s Bürgen land by I reatv ol I rianon, mainly to keep Hungary and Austria angry at o.«e another. lo Czechoslovakia was given Upper Hungary, including Kassa, Pozsony, Hungarian coronation and parliament city. These pictures — reproduced by permission of the Black Star Publishing Co-, Inc. of New York — show four monuments erected in Budapest, Hungary, as reminders of the territories and peoples lost to neighboring states following the Peace Treaty of Trianon in 1920. By order of the Soviet Military Command now in Hungary, these statues were removed from their respective places.
