The Truth about Central Europe I. [antikvár]

INTRODUCTION An attempt to explain and analyse the problems of Central Europe. What a presumptuous enterprise, some people will say. And yet, if a Central Europe is to be rebuilt upon a solid basis, one in which each constituent part can find relative satisfaction of its claims, a Danubian Federation must be created, independent of the Great Powers, in no way directed against them, but of value to each of the rival States which go to make it up. Vague theories are not a solution, for they lack any contact with reality and cannot be translated into fact. When the Treaties of Versailles, Trianon and St Germain were drawn up, statesman who were nothing more than propagandists and intriguers who had been clever enough to gain control of the Peace deliberations, promised us a new world built on justice and law. They took it upon themselves to satisfy " every legitimate interest ", " every sacred right and boasted that they had created a " lasting " order in Central Europe which' guaranteed the security of the beneficiaries of the Treaties. Time did not give its sanction to these artifical creations. The " lasting " effects collapsed at the first shock. " It was easy to set up artifical States by means of forcejand