Hungarian Historian Quashes Rumor About Treaty Of Trianon "Expiry Date"
- 23 Jul 2015 9:00 AM
It has been rumored in Hungary for years that the Trianon peace dictate was created for 100 years and that Hungary would get back its lost territories by 2020. A historian explains why that is a myth. Interviewed by Iván Marinov, author of urbanlegends.hu blog, historian Balázs Ablonczy, PhD, author of the monograph Trianon legendák, says the treaty doesn’t include any reference to expiry.
It stipulates that from time to time the signatories might call on the members of the League of Nations [the forerunner of the UN] to revise treaties that cannot be implemented anymore and which, if remaining in force, might endanger world peace.
That provision isn’t promising for Hungary because any revision of the Treaty of Trianon could only happen if each stakeholder decided that only a revision could ensure peace.
Signed on June 4, 1920, the Treaty of Trianon only left one third of Hungary’s pre-WWI territory. The Hungarian delegation didn’t get a chance to influence the outcome of the peace talks. Overnight, a country of 20 m inhabitants was left with a population of just 7 m, and 3.2 m people of Hungarian nationality found themselves under the jurisdiction of Hungary’s neighbors: Romania, the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes, and Czechoslovakia.
Source: The Budapest Beacon
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