Et in Hungaria ego: Trianon, Revisionism and the Journal Magyar Szemle (1927-1944)

Caples, Matthew (2005) Et in Hungaria ego: Trianon, Revisionism and the Journal Magyar Szemle (1927-1944). Hungarian Studies, 19 (1). pp. 51-104. ISSN 0236-6568

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Abstract

The journal Magyar Szemle (1927-1944), founded by Prime Minister István Bethlen and edited by the historian Gyula Szekfü, was the primary forum for the discussion of the revision of the Treaty of Trianon and the situation of the Hungarian minorities in the neighboring states. Rejecting all proposals for border revision on an ethnic basis, the journal espoused integral revisionism, or the restoration of the historical Kingdom of Hungary. The periodical's own position on revision is best illustrated by the “New Hungaria” essays of the legal scholar László Ottlik, published between 1928 and 1940, which hoped to win back the former national minorities through promises of wide-ranging autonomy within a re-established Greater Hungary.

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