The Manchester Guardian of last Saturday published an inter- esting
interview with Lord Newton, who had just returned from a visit to Hungary and Transylvania. He said that in his opinion the effect of the Trianon Treaty was disastrous. " The Treaty is simply impossible because it mutilated the country so much and placed so many Hungarians under alien rule. . . . What the Treaty has done is to create three or four Alsace- Lorraines on a small scale." While admitting that in Western Hungary the Hungarians were in the wrong—in delaying the surrender to the Austrians—he remarked that the British people did not understand how extraordinarily difficult the situation was for them. He said it was rather as though the Allies had lost the war and then victorious Germany had authorized a mutilated France to recoup herself at the expense of Britain. What would' Britain think of that ? Yet the Hungarians were• in a similar position.
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