Heavy Handicaps

On the subject of the principles of Trianon, Sir Robert Donald considers that the closest study does not reveal any guiding rule, or even a consistent hypothesis upon which this Treaty was framed. Old Hungary was not carved up on any ethnological principle. It was impossible to get the ethnographical and political frontiers to coincide. Communications were cut ina way which had a paralysing effect on what was left of Hungary and was costly, inconvenient, damaging to the inhabitants of the alienated territories. The new map was drawn ina manner which not only smashed up a former economic unit, but imposed heavy handicaps on the economic existence of new Hungary.

The Treaty of Trianon was begotten of militarism; every consideration was set aside for strategic and military considerations. It was the product of the war spirit. A close observer, Mr. Ashmead Bartlett, of the tragic events which overwhelmed Hungary, said:

"So long as the Treaty of Trianon is allowed to remain in its present form there can be little hope of permanent peace in Europe—Hungary will remain the storm centre of the new Balkans."

The frontiers which Hungary is now claiming from Czechoslovakia would re-incorporate into Hungary one million of her own people.

We conclude on the prescient comment in May 1919 of Mr. J. L. Garvin in "The Observer":—"Instead of a settlement with security, it is a patchwork hinting peril in every seam. These terms give no fundamental solution to any European problem. They raise more dangers than they The New ULTRA LENS is an ELECTRIC-SUPER-

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