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Soft cover. Zustand: Very Good. 1st Edition. Sir Robert Gower: The Hungarian Minorities in the Succession States. London, 1937. Grant Richards. 122 [2] p. 1 1 fold-out annex (The Dismemberment of the Ancient Hungarian Kingdom effected by the 1919 peace conference.) First edition. Publisher's paper wrappers. - -- - "I have written this book at the suggestion of certain of my parliamentary colleagues who desired to have placed before them in a concise form a recital of those grievances under which the Hungarian minorities in the Succesion States are suffering." - -- - Sir Robert Vaughan Gower (1880 - 1953) was a British solicitor and Conservative Party politician from Kent. He sat in the House of Commons from 1924 to 1945. Mayor of Tunbridge Wells in 1918 1919, it was announced in the 1919 Birthday Honours that he was to be knighted for support he had given to a scheme for preserving businesses in the absence of those serving in World War I.

Black and white map at rear, 122pp. 21.5 x 14cm. Edges a little foxed, original wrappers browned in places, overall a very good copy. An impassioned essay examining the marginalisation of ethnic Hungarians separated from the Kingdom of Hungary by the Treaty of Trianon. Within, the author explores the status of the Hungarian minorities within the Little Entente nations of Romania, Yugoslavia, and Czechoslovakia, concluding with a denunciation of a perceived double standard held by the League of Nations regarding self-determination. At rear, two topographic maps of the Pannonian Basin illustrate the territorial losses incurred by Hungary. The author's views have been clearly influenced by the triumphalistic, irredentist narrative peddled by the Horthy regime, though they have been expressed in seemingly intuitive, pacifistic terms amenable to the British public. Much of Gower's argument hinges on a purported desire to strengthen the credibility of the League of Nations by preventing undue discord in Central Europe, thus avoiding a wider conflict - albeit this aim is achieved by acceeding to the demands of a proto-fascist state.