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The only country with political and territorial claims against Roumania was Hungary, anxious as ever to secure the revision of the Trianon frontiers. At a joint meeting of the Roumanian and Hungarian Commissions the Hungarian Minister proposed a plan for returning to Hungary a number of districts of Transylvania which have a Hungarian majority. But as to accept this proposal would have been to cut the main Transylvanian railway at several points and to deprive half the province of its natural economic centres it found no support, and the Commission confirmed the proposal of the Four Ministers restoring to Roumania her pre-war frontiers. The Slav Powers were more favourably disposed towards Roumania than towards Hungary, the political complexion of whose Government, in which the Smallholder Party was predominant, was undoubetedly a conditioning factor. The Slav group supported an unsuccessful proposal to give Roumania the status of " co-belligerent ", and they were foremost in opposing Hungary's revisionist designs on Transylvania.