§ 77. Mr. AUBREY HERBERTasked the Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs why, if Schlesvig, which has only recently been a part of Germany, is to be allowed a plebiscite, parts of Hungary, which have been Hungarian for centuries, are to be torn from her without their consent?
Mr. HARMSWORTHIn deciding where recourse to a plebiscite was necessary, the Allied and Associated Powers were guided rather by consideration of the ethnographical distribution of the population than by the antiquity or otherwise of the political frontiers which they found in existence.
§ Captain ELLIOTIs it not the case that great and compact masses of Hungarians are to be detached from Hungary, and would it not be fair to them to be allowed a chance of saying whether they wish to be detached from their own country and to go to an entirely new and alien domination?
Lieut.-Colonel MALONEDoes not the same thing apply to the Dobruschka which has been torn away from Hungary?
§ Mr. HERBERTIs it not the case that the only portions of Hungary which have been refused a plebiscite are those where there are no Hungarians?