t of that county in Roumania. It is
true that there are Roumanian villages in the neighbourhood of this
German-Magyar-Jewish town, which is by far the largest place in the
Banat. And the Roumanians, who have already annexed enormous Magyar and
German populations in Transylvania, do not boggle at another 80,000
foreigners. One could, however, find very few Yugoslavs who want
Teme[vs]var to be restored to them; they know that they and the
Roumanians, whatever (as regards themselves) may have been the case in
other days, form, each of them, only about one-thirtieth of the total
population. But they are sorry that the Allies asked them to share in
occupying the town, because the local Serbs, who are interested in
politics, were so enthusiastic, that on the arrival of the Roumanians
they were forced to leave their businesses and go to live in Yugoslavia.
Since neither Serbs nor Roumanians have any ethnical claim to the town
one would suppose that, as the spoil had fallen to Roumania, the Entente
would have endeavoured to give the Yugoslavs some compensation: what
they did was to take away from them a good deal of that which they
had--a considerable slice of their western county--which also was
presented to the Roumanians. Again, the delineators excused themselves
by invoking their ethnical motives, but as a matter of fact in that part
of Torontal the people are predominantly German and they should have
been allotted to Yugoslavia, not merely because the Teme[vs]var Germans
were given to Roumania but on account of their economic existence, which
certainly in the case of the departments of Nagyszentmiklos, Perjamos
and Csene (to retain the Magyar spelling) is bound up with Zsombolya,
their market-town, and Kikinda. According to the census that was taken
in 1919, the population of these three departments now allotted to
Roumania consisted of 41,109 Germans, 13,638 Yugoslavs and 19,270
Roumanians. Further, to the south-east of Torontal, in the departments
of Pardany, Modos and Banlak, there is not so intimate a connection with
the market-town; here the population consists of 12,209 Germans, 11,102
Yugoslavs and 8808 Roumanians. But there seems to be little reason why
the whole of Torontal, following the wishes of the majority of its
inhabitants, should not be given to Yugoslavia; and this would also
reduce to a minimum the inconveniences produced by any frontier. For
many long years there has been a county frontier between Toronta