ay the Roumanian people become reconciled to Yugoslavia's righteous
possession of part of the Banat. It would be a pity if these two
neighbours were to live together on such terms as, in the eastern county
of the Banat, Caras-Severin, do the Bufani and the other Roumanians. The
Bufani came from Roumania some hundred and fifty or two hundred years
ago, on account of the taxes which they found intolerable; and they have
not been able to arrive at amicable relations with those countrymen of
theirs who are the descendants of earlier emigrants. Very seldom do the
Bufani and the others intermarry. These Bufani, so say the others, are
like ivy. "They called out," complain the others, "they called out:
'Little brother, be good to us!' and then they strangled us." The
Bufani, who are easily recognizable by their dialect, frequent the same
church and have one priest with the others, but they have a separate
cemetery.

(_e_) THE HUNGARIAN FRONTIER

North of the town of Subotica the frontier between Yugoslavia and
Hungary is almost a natural one, as it runs over vast hills of shifting
sand which are still partly in motion. Neither on foot nor on horseback,
still less with loaded carts, is it possible to travel through these
hills. But to the east and to the west of them the frontier is no better
than that which separates Yugoslavia from Roumania, and when it came to
the delimitation the Magyars thought it would be preferable if this
work were done with their assistance. Otherwise, so they urged, there
would be no check upon the wicked intolerance of their neighbours. It is
true that they themselves had in the past been in favour of
centralization, but against this one must remember that the "subject
nationalities" were inferior beings. The Yugoslavs, the Roumanians and
the Slovaks could not claim a glorious descent from Attila, of whom a
fresco decorates the House of Parliament at Buda-Pest, and thus the
Magyars had always thought it seemly that, by various devices, a limit
should be put to the number of Yugoslav, Roumanian and Slovak deputies.
Count Apponyi and his colleagues told the Peace Conference very frankly
at the beginning of 1920 that it really ought to take their word for it,
and not persist in looking on the Yugoslavs, etc., as if they were as
good as any Magyar. Surely it was obvious that Yugoslavia, Greater
Roumania and Czecho-Slovakia would be "artificial and improvised
creations, devoid of the traditions of polit