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Contents

[Foreword]
I. Hungary has lost the Largest Area and the Greatest Population of any Combatant in the Great War.
II. Hungary Deprived of her Natural Frontiers and Disarmed has been Delivered up to her Neighbours to be Held at their Mercy.
III. European Gratitude to Hungary.
IV. Hungary's War Guilt.
V. Hungary and the National Minorities.
VI. Trianon Liberty in Central Europe. (Yugoslavia.)
VII. The "Liberty" of Trianon in Central-Europe. (Czechoslovakia.)
VIII. The "Liberty" of Trianon in Centrale-Europe. (Roumania.)
IX. Frontiers and Historical Rights.
X. Trianon and the Peoples' Right of Self-Determination.
XI. Why was it then Necessary to make the Treaty of Trianon?
XII. The Treaty of Trianon is the Work of Greed, Gross Ignorance and Malicious Deception.
XIII. How did the Authors of the Peace Treaty of Trianon Soothe their Conscience?
XIV. The Protection of the National Minorities in Theory and in Practice.
XV. The Minority Contracts do not Save the Detached Hungarians from various kinds of Persecution
XVI. Killing the Soul of the Hungarian Minorities, and the League of Nation's Protection.
S. O. S.!

THE THOUSAND YEARS' STRUGGLES OF THE HUNGARIAN NATION.
THE HUNGARIAN GENIUS: WHAT IT HAS ACHIEVED DURING TEN CENTURIES OF HISTORY.

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Foreword

Ladies and Gentlemen.

In the following pages of this work you will find two geographical-political monstrosities which at the first glance will appear incomprehensible.

One of the maps depicts the thousand-year old kingdom of Hungary, for centuries the defence of European Christian civilization against paganism, and, in the vitals of this by nature exquisitely complete geographic, economic and national unit, you will see, outlined in black, an awkward shapeless area. This misshapen territory, deprived of old Hungary's forests, mines and natural resources, whose rivers have been cut up and roads and railway lines torn to pieces, is the present dismembered Hungary. This map is a dreadful fact. What you see here in front of you is the monstrous result of the so-called Peace Treaty of Trianon.

The other map is - thank God - only hypothetical and serves no other purpose but to enable you to realise by comparison what was done ten years ago by the Great Powers of the World to poor unfortunate Hungary, as shown on the first map.

Ladies and Gentlemen, consider this map of the powerful Great Britain! We apologise in advance for taking the liberty to confront you with a map which cannot but rouse your anger and resentment.

Indeed, the bare thought of Great Britain being thus dismembered must provoke universal indignation, and no doubt it is also your feeling that only hallucinations of a diseased mind can produce such an abomination. We are quite aware of this and again ask you to forgive us this map. In justification we must say that it is under the pressure of utter despair that we have decided to draw up the map of a dismembered Great Britain, because only by this means are we able to bring home to you something which, without it, we are sorry to say, you would never be able wholly to understand.

The fact is that the same ignorant narrowmindedness was actually at work in the case of Hungary, and you, citizens of civilized human society, have been tolerating this stupid dismemberment of Hungary for the last ten years. Muster your imagination for a little while, until by means of one map you are able to understand the meaning of the other one next to it, and you will see clearly illustrated the wicked and senseless injustice committed against Hungary by the so-called Peace Treaty of Trianon, which should rather be called a Peace Command than a Treaty.

Ancient Hungary covered an area of 325.000 square kilometres with a population of 20,886.000.

By contrast the black-bordered shapeless territorial formation, today called dismembered Hungary measures altogether no more than 93.000 square kilometres, with 7,516.000 inhabitants. Therefore, if you will kindly take a pencil and figure out the area and the number of inhabitants torn away from our thousand-year old country by that Treaty of Trianon, and what has been left to her in territory and population, you will find that she has been deprived of 232.000 square kilometres of territory and 13,370.000 inhabitants. I. e. 72 per cent of the area and 64 per cent of the population has been taken away, leaving 28 per cent of the former territory for present Hungary with only 36 per cent of the old population.

Ladies and Gentlemen, with your hands on your hearts confess! have you hitherto been aware of this that has been done to Hungary by the Peace Treaty of Trianon?

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