Some Facts About the Proposed, Dismemberment of Hungary PDF Download

Author: Eugene Pivany
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ISBN: 9781330976807
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 28

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Excerpt from Some Facts About the Proposed, Dismemberment of Hungary: With a Map, Statistical Table and Two Appendices 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 fifteen counties of Transylvania (South-Eastern Hungary) the Rumanians have indeed a bare majority, but it is right there on the south-eastern border that large contiguous territories are peopled by Szekely Magyars and Saxon settlers. In practically all the towns of ten thousand and over the Magyars are in the majority, and in the few instances in which they are not, the majority is German. Yet the Rumanians claim such important Magyar cities as MarosVasarhely, Nagyvarad, Szatmar, Arad, and last, but not least Kolozsvar, the capital of Transylvania. Kolozsvar, the Precious (Kineses Kolozsvar), as the Hungarians love to call it, is a beautiful city full of historical associations dear to the hearts of all Hungarians; it has a university, several colleges, museums and libraries, it is the centre of the Unitarian Church in Hungary, and a commercial emporium as well. All that has been created by the Magyars through the work of centuries. The Rumanians have had no part in it, constituting only one percentum of the population and, with a few exceptions, being employed there to perform menial work. It is also to be borne in mind that Hungary has been the eastern bulwark of Western Christianity and, particularly, of Protestantism. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.