ry. Opposite the apex of this
triangular tract of country lies Szeged, the second city of Hungary
(118,328 inhabitants, of whom 113,380 are Magyars) and the chief centre
of the grain trade of the rich southern plains. As was pointed out in
_The New Europe_,[115] Szeged, which lies in flat country, would be even
more defenceless than Belgrade if the lands on the other side of the
river were under alien rule. If one draws a strategical frontier the
nationality of the people is, of course, disregarded; it is, therefore,
beside the point to mention that there seem to be far more Serbs in the
angle opposite Szeged than there were Magyars in the lands opposite
Belgrade. The Entente has simply made up its mind to be generous to
Szeged, and let us hope that we have not left this region to Hungary on
account of the activities of the extremely intelligent Baroness
Gerliczy--a Roumanian lady married to a Magyar--who owns a large estate
there and was much in Paris during the critical period.

The other imperfections in the Paris arrangements, whether with regard
to villages or fields, are not incapable of amendment. One presumes that
the Roumanians, who have no lack of other international problems, will
be wise enough to discard certain dicta of their Liberal party and of
Bratiano, its self-satisfied leader, to whom all subjects seem great if
they have passed through his mind. One particular dictum which the
Roumanians ought to cast aside is that which insists upon the
indivisibility of the Banat. Another Roumanian statesman, Take Jonescu,
was more sagacious when he, during the War, drew up a memorandum whose
object was that Greece, Serbia, Roumania and the Czecho-Slovak
Governments should work in harmony. This idea of presenting a single
diplomatic front was to the liking of Mr. Balfour, who observed to M.
Jonescu that it would be better for these States and better for Europe.
As regards an understanding between Roumania and Serbia in the Banat:
"I," said Pa[vs]i['c]--"I speak for Serbia. Can you speak for Roumania?"

And Jonescu unfortunately had to shake his head.

In the fatuous policy of crying for the whole Banat--they even require
the little island in the Danube between Semlin and Belgrade--Bratiano is
assisted by the aged Marghiloman, who is the chief of a branch of the
Conservative party. But the relations between these two do not seem
destined to be cordial, since Bratiano is married to Marghiloman's
divorced wife.

M