SHARP EXCHANGE

Wairarapa Times-Age, 1 December 1939, Page 5

SHARP EXCHANGE

HUNGARY & RUMANIA COUNT CZAKY'S CONTENTION. ASSERTION OF TERRITORIAL. DEMAND. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. LONDON, November 30. The Hungarian Foreign Minister. Count Czaky, replying to M Gafencu. declared that Rumania was alone in her stubborn contention that the Trianon Treaty affected a just Ruman-ian-Hungarian settlement.

He added that modification of the treaty was not only urgently desirable for Hungary's good but necessary for the preservation of peace in Central Europe. The Budapest correspondent of “The Times” comments that this sharp exchange marks a definite change .in Hungarian-Rumanian relationships, which hitherto had maintained, at least on the surface, the appearance of conciliation.

Hungary's grievance against Rumania concerns the territory of Transylvania which she lost to her neighbour by the Treaty of Trianon in 1920. But this treaty—the formal acknowledgement of her defeat in the Great War—Hungary lost 192,000 square kilometres of her area of 283.000, and 10,782,000 of her population of 20,886,000. Included in the territorial losses were Croatia and Salvonia, which, were incorporated in Yugoslavia, and Slovakia and Ruthenia, which went to Czechoslovakia. After Munich Hungary got back a substantial strip of Slovakia and the greater part of Ruthenia.