The Council spent a great deal of time last week
in discussing this muddle, from which good will on the part of the disputants was conspicuously absent. Sir Austen Chamberlain, as Rapporteur, read the Report of a committee of jurists who had studied the matter and concluded that the Hungarian owners must be subject to the Rumanian agrarian laws, which must be applied impartially in old and new Rumania. Sir Austen asked the two advocates, the aged Count Apponyi and M. Titulescu, to accept the jurists' report and suggested that the Rumanian member of the Arbitral Tribunal should be restored. Count Apponyi revived Hungary's demand for a decision at The Hague which Rumania has refused to consider. On Monday, Sir Austen seemed to despair of a settlement, but was begged to continue his work ; his efforts, however, had no success and the disputants were asked to consider what had passed and to bring the matter up again in December.
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