The reconstruction of South-Eastern Europe

THE RECONSTRUCTION OF

Hungary, which will become a truly Magyar State, her Slav and Latin population going respectively to Bohemia, the Southern Slav State, and Roumania, who will unite within her frontiers her entire race still enslaved in Austria-Hungary. Italy will obtain her natural frontier in South Tyrol, and complete her national unity. Poland in the north will be constituted a self-governing kingdom, in which all Poles will be united. As every one of these new national States will of necessity incorporate some unimportant minorities of alien race, it would be in accordance with justice and the new spirit of mutual respect and tolerance which must prevail in future Europe, that guarantees should be provided ensuring the existence and the free national development of these minorities.

Then South-Eastern Europe will present the following picture: Bohemia with about twelve million inhabitants, Hungary with about nine million, Roumania with about fourteen million, the Southern Slav State with about fourteen million, Albania with about one and a half million, Greece with six million and Bulgaria with five million. Constantinople and the Straits must belong to Russia, because she is the only European State, besides Roumania, for which the Bosphorus and the Dardanelles represent a vital interest. And it goes without saying that Roumania should be given full guarantees safe-

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