Why the Treaty of Trianon

is Void

By

LOUIS KOSSUTH BIRINYI, A.B., LL.B., LL.D.

Author, "Justice for Hungary," "The Tragedy of

Hungary," "International Justice for Hungary," etc.

Member, Cleveland, Ohio, Bar

Published by

V. L. R. SIMMONS

531 Cedar St., N.E.

Grand Rapids, Michigan

Copyright, 1938

by

LOUIS KOSSUTH BIRINYI

11803 Buckeye Road

Cleveland, Ohio, U.S.A.

Copyright, 1938, London, England

Copyright, 1938, Ottawa, Canada

First Edition

November, 1938

Printed in U. S. A.

This book is gratefully dedicated to

DR. CONRAD RICHARD SCHIEDT, Ph.D., Sc.D., Emeritus Professor of Biology of Franklin and

Marshall College, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, a great teacher and an unselfish friend, whose precept

to seek, act and live the truth and to serve the best interests of our fellowmen is scrupulously followed by

THE AUTHOR

PUBLISHER'S FOREWORD

There are a few things that the reader should know and consider before reading this trial of a treaty. The United States Senate has never ratified the Treaty of Trianon or any other treaty of Versailles. President Wilson, who spoke for the United States then as president, worked out a 14-point plan of settlement of the World War so that all nations and peoples would enjoy what appeared to him to be a fair, justifiable and lasting peace. These 14 points were entirely disregarded in the treaties of Versailles in spite of the fact that the United States supplied the finances to carry all of the Allied nations through the war. With one exception (Finland) those loans are still unpaid. The real causes of President Wilson's death have never been publicly discussed. In reaching a conclusion of facts given in this volume you will find that these positive facts will help you to decide as to the claims of the nation which suffered most in the settlement of that war and which still bears no malice towards the United States. That nation is Hungary.

V. L. R. SIMMONS,

Publisher.

NOTE -- The author of this book has carefully selected the proofs of this trial of the Treaty of Trianon from established facts and allegations that have not been refuted or denied over a long period of time and have been recognized as facts. The spelling of proper names which varies with different authorities has been given careful selection. Some personages of Europe have two or even more names by which they are known. Dr. Edouard Benes for instance has been known variously as Spolny, Belsky, Berger, Novotny, Konog, Sicha and Leblanc. It is well for the reader to know that such conditions are part of European life.

"Open thy mouth for the dumb in the cause of all such as are appointed to destruction.

"Open thy mouth, judge righteously, and plead the cause of the poor and needy."

Proverbs 31:8-9

AUTHOR'S FOREWORD

The author attended Crescent Academy and Business College at Crescent, North Carolina, for two years, and later attended and graduated from Franklin and Marshall Academy of Lancaster, Pennsylvania. Upon graduation from the latter, he entered Franklin and Marshall College of Lancaster, Pennsylvania, and in the usual time he was graduated from it with the degree of Bachelor of Arts (A.B.) After his graduation from college, he entered the Law School of Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, and in due time graduated from it with the degree of Bachelor of Law (LL.B.). Still later, the University of Dubuque, Dubuque, Iowa, conferred on him the honorary degree of Doctor of Law (LL.D), and he is now engaged in the general practice of law in Cleveland, Ohio.

He is interested in the general welfare of the American people and has made a careful study of the reasons for and causes of our economic, and shall we say, political collapse. He has found that the world is sick economically and morally; that the malady, which is gradually undermining Christian civilization, has reached the acute stage in Europe; and that it has infected our own country to such a serious degree that it would be nothing less than a national crime not to notice it and not to prevent it from destroying our own civilization.

The focus of infection is in the Versailles treaties and the Treaty of Trianon. The condition created by these treaties has resulted in a world-wide economic chaos and social upheaval, which are threatening to engulf the world in a destructive flame of war. If a war breaks out in Europe, an attempt will be made to involve the United States of America in it.

The scientific method to prevent disease is to make a careful study of its causes and, when found, to isolate and destroy them. A scientific method to prevent war is to make a careful study of its causes, and, when found, isolate and eliminate them. If we are to prevent foreign interests from dragging us again into the European mess and losing what we have left as a result of the World War, it behooves us now to study carefully the reasons for and underlying causes of the world upheaval, which threatens to precipitate the world into destructive war.

"Know ye the truth, for the truth shall make you free." It is with this divine truth in mind that your author has written this book, so that you may know what underlying causes and what international interests are driving this world of ours toward the brink of destructive war. Should you feel that you want to fight or send your sons and daughters to a foreign country to engage in a war, at least, after reading this book, you will know what the fight and war will be all about.

It is the belief and hope of your author that the rank and file of the American people will heed the warning of George Washington to keep out of foreign alliances and entanglements. We have learned to our great chagrin and sorrow in the World War that we have nothing to gain but have much to lose in more war. If other people want to fight, it is none of our concern and we should not interfere. Our own interests demand that we keep out of other people's troubles and mind our own business. The highest duty of an American citizen today is to help rebuild the collapsed economic structure of our own country, so that our own people may become prosperous, happy and contented. Our duty is to build up our country and not to destroy what other people have built.

It is neither a pleasant nor a profitable task to write, speak and advocate the truth regarding the underlying causes of the international chaos and disease, as they are related to our own economic and social problems. Your author has written more or less extensively along this line and consequently has been subjected to various threats and undercover persecutions. We might just as well be frank about it in saying that the impression is rather widespread in this our country, that to be an uncompromising American is equivalent to an invitation to "sudden heart failure" and then death. The mental condition created by this impression will no doubt have its repercussion in our country probably not far distant in the future. Uncompromising and loyal Americanism must not be threatened into silence by foreign interests and their paid agents.

In closing, your author makes here an unusual yet well-justified request. If, after having read this book, you should feel, as I hope you will, that it serves the best interest of the American people and that the American people should know the facts detailed herein, please tell your friends and acquaintances about it and urge them to order a copy for themselves and read it. We all want to prevent foreign interests from tricking our country again into a world war, in which we have no national interest; and the most successful way to prevent it is to acquaint our fellow American citizens with the facts and underlying causes of the threatening chaotic condition which is driving world Christianity toward extermination.

Your author has done his share of the work. It now behooves you and all liberty-loving Americans to spread the truth and thereby prevent the international invisible powers to force our sons and daughters to fight, bleed and die in any war which does not concern us.

LOUIS KOSSUTH BIRINYI

11803 Buckeye Road

Cleveland, Ohio

"How can humanity justify or God forgive? Human hate demands no such toll; ambition and greed must be denied it. If misunderstanding must take the blame, then let us banish it, and let understanding rule and good-will regnant everywhere. All of us demand liberty and justice. There cannot be one without the other, and they must be held the unquestioned possession of all peoples. Inherent rights are of God, and the tragedies of the world originate in their attempted denial. The world today is infringing their enjoyment by arming to defend or deny, when simple sanity calls for their recognition through common understanding."

President Warren G. Harding

Reprinted from Dr. L. Buday's "Dismembered Hungary"

Proportion of Hungary's land distributed among her neighbors by the Treaty of Trianon.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Page

Publisher's Foreword . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . V

Author's Foreword . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . VII

1. What Ails the World? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1

2. The Treaty and the Law . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5

3. Hungary Before the World War . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15

4. The Berlin-Bagdad Railroad . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25

5. The Corruption of the French Government and
Press . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39

6. War Was Provoked . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53

7. Austria-Hungary and Germany Tried to Avoid
War . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61

8. The Great Betrayal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95

9. The Secret Agreements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135

10. The Allies are Guilty . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147

11. The Paris Peace Conference . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157

12. The Betrayal of Justice and Decency . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163

13. The Treaty of Trianon Was Forced Upon Hun-

gary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169

14. The Verdict of Public Opinion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 183

15. The World Betrayed. Democracy Destroyed.

Treaties Violated . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 189

16. Our Conclusion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 203

17. Our Plea to Christian Civilization. Hungary

Must be Revived and Reconstructed . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 207

Index. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 229

INDEX OF ILLUSTRATIONS

Page

Proportion of land taken from Hungary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . X

Lineup of Europe in 1938 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4

Nationalities in Czechoslovakia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14

Proportion of nationalities in territories taken from
Hungary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52

Proportion of railroads and equipment taken from
Hungary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60

Table salt production . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78

"Navigable River," Ronyva . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79

Budapest, center of transportation system of
Europe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79

Pre-war territory of Hungary and the Berlin-Bag-
dad Railroad . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80

Europe in 1938 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81

Railway lines in pre-war Hungary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82

Railway lines of Hungary ruptured by Treaty of
Trianon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82

Budapest is closer than Prague to every point in
pre-war Hungarian territory given to Czecho-
slovakia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82

Mutilated Hungary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84

The economic resources of pre-war Hungary . . . . . . . . . . . 85

Pre-war one thousand-year-old Hungary . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86-87

Baby, victim of malnutrition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88

Code letter regarding assassination of Austrian

Archduke . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89

Coal, oil and gas fields taken from Hungary . . . . . . . . . . . . 89

"Democracy," as practiced by French soldiers in

Ruhr Valley . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90

Flood-controlling system of pre-war Hungary . . . . . . . . . . 91

Distribution of territories taken from Hungary . . . . . . . . . . 92

Berlin-Bagdad Railway . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93

Iron ore deposits taken from Hungary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93

Budapest, natural railway center of Middle Europe . . . . . . 94

Production of iron in new Danubian States . . . . . . . . . . . . . 146