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...Eastern Question 1856-77", Professor Langer, Harvard...
...Russia from 1906 to 1914", Professor Langer, Harvard...
...following article written for the Crimson by Dr. Stephen Czako, Roya Hungarian Ministerial Vice-Secretary and Pugsley Scholar in International Law, deals with the Hungarian situation of racial minorities. It is supplementary to the article by Professor W. L. Langer '15 on the problem of racial minorities in Europe which appeared in last Tuesday's Crimson. Professor Langer's article dealt chiefly with the German side of the question and so interested Dr. Czako that he volunteered the following discussion of the Hungarian situation...
...States Senate refused to ratify the so called Treaty of Trianon, the United States closed a separate treaty with Hungary at Budapest in 1921 from which the new frontiers of mutilated Hungary were omitted. This shows that the United States was the first power to discover that, as Professor Langer points out, "in the peace settlements of 1919 the principle of national self-determination was applied in an imperfect way to the problem of territorial readjustment and in view of the vaguenes of national frontiers a settlement of entirely satisfactory character was out of the question" and further that...
That is the reason that, as Professor Langer says, these unsatisfactorily settled minority problems are the most dangerous questions in European politics and that the reason why "the present arrangements for the protection of minorities are inadequate" lies largely in the fault of the peace settlements; not least in the case of Hungary which lost, by the Treaty of Trianon, without any legal self-determination or plebiscite, three and a half millions Hungarians to the so called successor states, thus creating not one but four Alsace-Lorraines in the middle of Europe