EUROPE’S POWDER MAGAZINE

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 136, 30 August 1927, Page 1

EUROPE’S POWDER MAGAZINE

ROTHERMERE ON CZECHO SLOVAKIA

He says the makers of the Peace Treaty of 1919 aimed to rearrange the map of Europe on a basis of selfdetermination, as for example, the plebiscite held in Schleswig, but the creation of the State of Czecho-Slo-vakia as a result of intensive propaganda was purely an artificial operation outraging the very principle of nationality which it was supposed to serve, thereby leading to grave abuses, and containing the sure seed of future wars. “The Government of Czechoslovakia proceeded to exploit the 1 Hungarians, virtually confiscating

STERN WARNING OF DISASTROUS WAR By Cable. —Press Association. — Copyright. Received 11.22 a.m. LONDON, Monday. CZECHOSLOVAKIA constitutes Europe’s powder magazine,” says Lord Rothermere in an article in the ‘‘Daily Mail,” ‘‘owing to her treatment of the million Hungarians there, who are entirely different in race and language from the Czechs.”

their property, and tolerating some of the worst abuses that have ever occurred in the public life cf Europe,” Lord Rothermere continues.

“Czechoslovakia must soon make a momentous- decision by refusing to retain compact blocks of Hungarians against their will, and agree to a revision of the frontier through a plebiscite. Self-interest alone should dictate such a course. “The country’s development largely depends on foreign financial assistance, and foreign financiers, aware of the country’s internal condition are not disposed to invest in it. Hungary possesses the right to recover her nationals across the border. The present condition of affairs is an outrage. If Europe continues to close its eyes, this will inevitably result in a disastrous war. "Rumania also has appropriated 600,000 Hungarians. The greed and oppression of these two States has created two new Alsace-Lor-raines which are nothing less than a festering sore at Europe’s heart.”—Sun.