Hungary and Democracy

It is beyond the scope of this book to deal, however briefly, with the history of Hungary before the famous Ausgleich, or Compromise, of 1867. This Compromise determined the sta...

We must now examine the relations between the Magyars and the other nationalities in Hungary rather more closely. At the census of 1910 the official Hungarian Government figures...

In order that the full scope of Magyarisation may be understood, a short summary of the principal Magyarising provisions of the laws of Hungary is given. This summary is by no m...

The Magyarisation policy of the Hungarian Government, although, as we have seen, it prevailed in the realms of representation and justice, attained its full development in the e...

The outbreak of war came at a time when Magyar oppression of the nationalities was approaching a crisis. The Hungarian Government felt and feared the danger which was already lo...

The issue of the War had proved beyond dispute that the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy could no longer exist in the form in which it had existed previously. Apart altogether from the...

As a matter of fact, the estimates of the non-Magyar nationalities are probably too small, for the reasons already set out in a previous chapter. The Slovaks themselves estimate...

It is one of the principal complaints of the Magyars that since the division of Hungary the Magyar minorities in the surrounding States have been oppressed and unfairly treated....

From the moment when Hungary realised that her defeat in the field would result in the loss of the territory populated by what the Magyars termed the subject races, she devoted...

The hostile attitude of Hungary towards the new States and her determination to seek revision of the Treaty of Trianon, are demonstrated by methods other than those of propagand...

The result of the War may justly be described as the victory of liberal ideas and the triumph of democracy. The autocratic empires have disappeared, and upon their ruins have be...