ABSTRACT
The treaty of Trianon, with Hungary, was conceived in the same spirit as the treaties of Versailles, St. Germain, and Neuilly, and it conformed closely in its text to the treaty of St. Germain. Treaties of Versailles and St. Germain gave birth to two new states, Poland and Czecho-Slovakia. As the successor states were concerned, both the territorial and economic clauses of the treaties of Versailles and St. Germain, and the special treaty creating Poland, were inspired by the political and commercial interests of these powers. Hungarian inheritance raised questions of a different order, and the successor states were not in the same relation to the Entente powers or to one another. The heart of the treaties lies in the clauses quoted, and their modification in the treaty of Trianon denotes a partial victory of the small states against the effort of the Entente powers to control the internal politics and economic life of the successor states of Austria-Hungary.
