Some Facts About the Proposed, Dismemberment of Hungary With a Map, Statistical Table and Two Appendices Classic Reprint

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The central plains of Hungary are populated almost wholly by the Magyars. Towards the peripheries their numbers diminish, although right on the Hungarian-Rumanian border there are three counties almost entirely Magyar. But they are present everywhere, and in the peripheries the various races are so intermingled that it is impossible to cut out large territories on a racial basis without incorporating large minorities of other races which, of course, object to such incorporation.

The dismemberment of Hungary has been proposed in order to secure the right of self-determination of small nations. The perusal of the statistical table and of the map attached to this pamphlet will easily convince everybody open to conviction that the claims put forward by the imperialistic neighbors of Hungary and apparently approved at Paris, cannot be justified on the basis of that principle. On the contrary, those claims are direct denials of the right of self-determination, for in each of the sections claimed by the three neighboring countries the particular race claiming it is in the minority. Neither is it in accord with the facts that by the proposed dismemberment of Hungary the Magyar race would be confined to its ethnic limits, for in the territories to be wrested from Hungary the Magyars would have a very large plurality and, together with the German element, would form a majority. The ethnic limits of the Magyar race are hard to define; they certainly reach beyond the boundaries of Hungary into Rumania and Croatia.

The Rumanians claim nearly one-half of the territory of Hungary, twentysix counties out of sixty-three, with a total population of nearly seven millions, out of which not quite three millions, or 43 percentum, are Rumanians, and many of them are disinclined to be ruled by the boyars, as the junkers of Rumania are called. In the…