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

1930 / 6. szám - Trianon and the Peoples'Right of Self-Determination

November 1930 HUNGÁRIA LLOYD 27 bwring States. Let tihem ask the Slovaks, alleged to have been oppressed, whether fchey desire to be annexed by the Czechs? Let Éhem ask the Ruthenians who were loval soldiers evén in Rákóczi's day, whether they desire to be exoluded f rom the Hungárián community. Lel them ask the Serbians, and the Roumanians of Transylvania whether in their own interest they approve of joining tliose of their race still living under Balkan conditions? Let them ask the Croatians whether they wanted to terminate the State community in which they have been living for eight centuries in good understanding with the Hungárián aation? Frotin a morál point of view inul pfömpted by commön sneytse this would harc been the only acceptable procedure. The peace delegates of the Allied and Associated Powers, however, mocking at morals and eommon sense, rejected this Hungárián proposal. Whyi In answer \ve are in position to quote one official and one uhofficial reason. The official reason: Millerand says in his above mentioned covering letter: „The Hungárián Peace Delegation puts forward the argument thai the regulations of the peace tieaty have nowhere ordained a plebiscite. If the Allied and Associated Powers considered it superfluous to consult the population in this direction this was because they preceived with certainty that this consulation, if surrounded with complete guarantees of sincerity, would not give results substantially different from those at which they had arrived after a minute study of the ethnographic conditions and national aspirations." The impossibility of this argument is obvious at the f irst reading. What then was the real cause restraining the Allied Powers from ordaining a plebiscite? This is confessed by André Tardieu, member of (he most i ni portant committees preparing the peace preaties, with a frankne^s wwsual in diplomats. M. Tardieu writes in his book „La Paixíl with an introduction by Clemenceau: „We lutri to chose between the plebiscite and the fównding of CzpchostovaMa." This is the genuinüe reason! Tardieu admits that a plebiscite may have had quite different results than the Treaty of Trianon. What would have happened if a plebiscite Ind been ordained? We think that this question is answered in the name of all detached territories by that small area on which after all a plebiscite was held. The Himgarian Government, before hamdÁng over the areas adjudged to Aústria, arranged with the Viennese Government for a plebiscite to\ decidé the apportionment of Sopron and its surroumdings. The plebiscite was a glorious victory for Hungary. Since then Sojjron bears the name of „civitas fideftssima,", the most faithful city of Hungary. We are fully co<Ámncéd, thai the population of the other parts of the (Jountry, includiny the, Slovaks, Roumanians, öermans, Serbians and Croatians would harc prótdfyced the same result as in Soipron, not evén mentidning the 3.424.000 Magyars who were forced to exchange their Hungárián natio-, nality for that of a hostile State. We wonder whether the statement made in Millerand's covering letter that: „the sincere expression of opinion would not give results substantially different from those at which the Supreme Council had arrived':, refers alsó to these 3.424.000 Hungarians? • MII Ml I IMIIMimmilMIIM lUMHIIMIIIIIMIIIIIIIII | Brítísh-Hungarían Bank Ltd § Angol-Magyar Bank Rt. — Paid-up capital and reserves 31 MILLIÓN PENGŐ T. A. Coloniale. Established ií Teíephone- 273—39 and the following numbers E Every deseription of Banking Business is transS acted. Ten branches in Budapest and eight in the provinces. iiimmnniiiiinimmuMiitiimim miiiiiiitmmmnmiiim immun MIHIÜI iiiiiiniiiiiiiiiiu The City oi Budapest's Communal Savings Bank Co. LTD. Budapest Székesfővárosi Községi Takarékpénztár Részvénytársaság Head-office : Budapest, V., Dorottya^utca 4. sz. T. A: Főtakarék. Fixed deposit, cheque and Current Accounts Mortgage loans. Exchange orders. Buying and selling of foreign claims, bilis and money, Discounting of drafts. Advance on bonds and shares Letters of credit. iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiniiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiniiiii