Abstract

The Central European Conspiracy

The publication by the Social Democratic press of Vienna and Prague of a series of secret documents taken from the archives of the Hungarian Legation in Vienna furnishes first-hand evidence as to the reality of the danger that threatens the peace of Europe. Essentially these documents-mostly confidential reports sent by Colonel Arpad Reich, head of the press bureau of the Magyar legation, to Tibor Eckhardt, who occupies the corresponding post in the Budapest Foreign Office contain little that was not known and suspected before. That the government of the Hungarian White Terror is fostering an irredentist movement and preparing an armed uprising in Slovakia; that its agents are organizing and financing anti-Semitic and royalist propaganda in German-Austria. The gist of the simultaneously concluded political treaty is that France agrees to the relegation of the Treaty of Trianon to the well-known heap of scraps of paper. That treaty abolishes universal military service in Hungary and reduces the Magyar army to a strength of 35,000.