C.P.(Gen)Doc.1.Q.3.
Article 1
The Czechoslovak Delegation proposes that after point 4 of Article 1 a further point be inserted to run as follows:
“Hungary shall cede to Czechoslovakia the villages of Dunacsun, Horvathjarfalu, Oroszvar, Rajka and Bezenye and their territory to the extent indicated on the map annexed to the present Treaty.” (Annex 1.)
Argument.
Czechoslovakia demands a small rectification of her frontier with Hungary and the cession of five villages and the surrounding land, an area of 14,671 hectares populated, according to the Hungarian census of 1930, by 7,523 inhabitants of whom 25.2 per cent were Croats, 21 per cent Hungarians and 53 per cent Germans. This territory is required for the expansion of the bridgehead of Bratislava, which was the subject of consideration even after the first world war.
[Page 727]The reasons for the demand are as follows:
- a.
- The capital of Slovakia under present conditions, lies on the very frontier of the State;
- b.
- The expansion of Bratislava is only possible in the direction of the territory claimed;
- c.
- The expansion of the port of Bratislava, which, as the largest Czechoslovak port on the Danube, was destroyed during the war, is also only possible on the territory demanded.