ABSTRACT
C.A.Macartney (1895-1978) worked for the League of Nations before becoming an academic. An expert on international relations and central Europe, he was author of many works on Hungary and the Austro-Hungarian empire. Macartney was one of the small group of scholarly commentators on the contemporary scene (including E.H.Carr) drawn together in the interwar years by A. J.Toynbee at the Royal Institute for International Affairs. This remarkably documented study, published by the RIIA in 1934, demonstrated the incompatibility and conflictual consequences of the territorial claims of nationalists that resulted from the treaty of Versailles.
