In Transylvania Lord Newton found a state of things which
he described as a " reign of terror." The Rumanian secret police wore the real Government, and they imprisoned and flogged without trial. Landowners were expropriated and the Hungarian University in Transylvania had been converted into a Rumanian University and all the Hungarian professors had been dismissed. The Hungarian inhabitants were not allowed to receive any newspapers except such as were censored in. Bucharest. The compulsory use of the Rumanian language, though a real oppression, was by comparison a minor grievance. Lord Newton hopes that either the Supremo Council or the League of Nations will intervene to enforce just terms. If Lord Newton has not been misled we agree that such a state of affairs urgently requires attention. Is it not deplorable that -those who were the oppressed as soon as they receive their freedom become the oppressors ? This is no new feature in human practice, of course—Cromwell understood it very well. But the passage of time makes it none the less odious.
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