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HIS periodical is published with a view to enlist the sympathies of English-speaking JL people, English and American, on behalf of a small nation in the eastern part of Central Europe, which represents in these regions Western culture, Western ideals and Western public morality. That nation has been unfairly dealt with in the peace-treaties which concluded, as far as manslaughter goes, the Great War, without, however, creating an atmosphere of real peace. The case of Hungary is an outstanding specimen of a peace that is no peace, but only a cessation of actual hostilities, because its terms are based not on mutual agreement, but on one-sáded dictation, not on justice, but on vindictiveness and greed, not on the permanent principles of natjonal political construction, but on the conjunctural possibihties of a critical hour. Deprived of two-thirds of her millenial territory, of her natural boundaries, of the economic reserves which made her all but self-supporting in every branch of production; having Iost by a whimsical dissection of this territory more than half her population and one third of the Magyar racial stock, that nation has to fight difficulties, financial, economic, cultural and morál, the Iike of which few nations have experienced at any period of humán history whatsoever. She certainly makes a brave stand against the calamities that assail her; but, unless somé remedy is applied to a situation which I may call unprecedented, the energies of this nation are in danger of failing, so far, at least, as effectually to impair her power to fulfil her historic mission which is to represent the expansive force of Western culture on its Eastern boundaries. This is the broad European aspect of the Hungárián problem; this is our claim to the sympathies of nations, somé of them far away, many among them more powerful than 9