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

1930 / 5. szám - Hungarian Possibilities in Foreign Politics

CHIEF EDITORS GYULA DE PÉKÁR, BÁRON JOSEPH SZTERÉNYI PRINCIPAL CONTENTS Hungárián Possibilities in Foreign Politics ... 21 Why was it necessary to make the Tieaty of Trianon ? 25 Anton Ebe: 27 X Hungárián Possibilities in Foreign Politics by Professor Eugen Horváth Wishing to accomplish the task of drawing a clear picture of the Hungárián possibilities which may be determined in foreign politica] relations, without losing myself in worthless details and insignificant gene;aliti»s, let tne omit all details and generatities, the faint outlines of theory and the existing obstacles of practice, and begin my artiele with the sole orientation which has remained unchanged for a thousand years: the Hungárián Soil, the Hungárián Nation and the Hungárián Pást. In reviewing the Hungárián past on Hunga- [ rian soil it is impossible to gel ríd of the fascinal ing impression offered to ah1 observers and thinkers, in looking at the map of Europe, by the hasin of the Kárpát mountainSj toúching the Alps. Amongst the wildest tiempests of humán struggles the fate of this ic^ion has been directed by the Hungárián Nation. She has taken possession of il bv raeans of changing the perpetual intertribal wars into peace and safetj supported and safeguarded by the power of Hunga rian States organisation. She guided and directed it when attacked Erőm the Wesl bv the Germán and from the Eeast by the Byzántine powers. She did not lose it when for a hundred and fifty years, it has been devastatéd bv Turkish hordes. and kepi il unchanged when the Habsburg governments endeavoured to extend the Austrian Empire over this territory. Oul of al] these struggles two tendencies gained steadily increasing force, viz: the attachmenl to Western eívilization to which il was geographically linked by the rangé of the Kárpál tnountains and whose vanguard towards the Kast it förmed and the adherance to national independence which reserved its forces, well triód in so many wars and struggles. for the benefil of its self-preservation. Gontemplating the possibilities offered by Hungary's political situation in respect of foreign affairs up to the end of the Great "W'ar, we find that in the construetion of the Dualism, established in 1867, when the Dynasty w ith a political organisation of European proportions was compelled, after the loss of its Western positions. to settle down oi a territory cönsiderably diminished, the Hungárián Nation fled behind the trénches of her defensive traditions against foreign influences. It was within these entranchments that the fashion of oppositión has been called into Life and alsó the gradual withdrawal of the Germán language from the schools started from there. Thus we got slowly isolated and estranged from the outer world with which from that time on only a Mindi number of Hungarians, speaking foreign languages kepi ap somé kind of a relation. It was at that period that we left it to the Aústrian press to make Hungary known and consequently ha\'c been reduced in the eves of the world to an Asiafic tribe sucb as only the barbariam of abandoned deserts eould produce. It was then íhat „International Law", ,,Comparative Politics" and „Contemporary History" were taken of the programme of our Highschools, a and pure Hungárián administration brought about, based on our isolation from harmful foreign influences. under whose protection in public as well as in priváté life, we abandoned our peace-loving soul, so jealously guarding our independence, to purely Hungárián tnotives. It is bevond any doubl thai the evolution outlined above resulted in the collapse of all possibilities in connection with foreign politics. The Hungárián who entered diplomatic or military service in the Dual Monarchy was losl or considered to be losl to the Hungárián Community. ínstead of taking advantage of the opportunities, offered by such positions.'Tor the benefil of the country and her population, he preferred to return to his fancy world of dreams. Havin-; entrusted Austria with the unrestricted administration of all foreign affairs he was satisfied to believe them to be well taken care of and realized only too late thai eyerything gol gradually changed around him. In the first years of the twentielh century Btissia, with more than a hundred millión inhabitants, was in search for somé compensation for the heavy