HUNGARY
[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sia,—I have just returned from Budapest—almost all that is left of Hungary. Once numbering eighteen millions, now only six, nearly all her land given to Rumania, Czechoslovakia and even to Austria !—is it fair she should suffer so cruelly for her enforced part in the Great War ? Rumania has her ramparts, the Carpathians ; it is as though Germany had our sea ; but the lost lands are closer yet—it is as though England had lost Yorkshire and the lands above Trent.
Hungary saved Christendom from the Turks, and Hun. garians and English have always been warm friends ; yet these terrible times have come to her because a Magyar cannot betray his king in time of war, even if that king has been. obliged to throw in his lot with those with whom Hungary had no sympathy. And now, as a man in Budapest said tc me with that deep sadness that wraps all the city : " The. trunk cannot live when you have cut off the limbs."
Is there no rearrangement of land possible whereby Hungary may once more have a chance to live ?—I am, Sir, &e., N. MAXWELL.
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