How the Magyars Figure on Czech and Slovak ethnographical maps [antikvár]

PREFACE Individuals and peoples alike have sooner or later to expiate the offences and crimes committed by them. Unfortunately, very often the innocent too have to share the expiation of the guilty. The greatest crime ever committed against humanity was that perpetrated by the Peace Edicts of Paris that were „concluded" after the first Great War of IQUjlS. The Entente won the first Great War, but it lost the peace, that brought about hy the Great Powers forming that Alliance being dictated, not by a spirit of undeistanding, by a generous desire to eliminate existing antagonisms, or by the sublime ideal of an endeavour to ensure justice and a humanitarian treatment. An important role was played in the work of drafting the treaties of peace by the smaller peoples of Central Europe and the Balkans, who in their insatiable greed did not shrink from resorting to every kind of misrepresentation, — to the falsification of geographical, statistical, demographi-cal and economic data and to the arbitrary misinterpretation of historical data —, in their endeavour at all costs to attain their selfish ends and create their artificial State-formations. British and French politicians of outstanding authority saw in advance that, if the Peace Edicts were ratified in their original form, the Peace Conference would be guilty of an irreparable crime; and in 1919 and 1920, in the British House of Commons and in the House of Lords, speeches full of misgivings were made in remonstrance against the Treaty of Trianon. And, on July 11th, 1921, the French Senate only approved of the Treaty of Trianon on the express understanding that the Government should reconsider the mistakes and injustices referred to by those who raised objections. This obligation — the sine qua non of the approval of the French Senate — wqs however never fulfilled. Owing to the injustices and misrepresentations the United States of North America refused to ratify the Peace Edict of Trianon.