ABSTRACT
The progress of agrarian reform throughout Central and Eastern Europe and the increasing political consciousness and power of the peasants seem likely to have a similar effect, tending to unite the peasants of all nationalities within a State in defence of their economic interests. To many middle-aged people the Europe of 1914 was the Real Europe, and the Europe of 1927 seems, by contrast, something artificial and unreal. The whole problem of national minorities is one; the New Russia, hovering, a suspicious outcast, on Europe’s Eastern flank, is another; the New Italy, flushed with Fascist wine, is a third. The cultural, educational and religious liberties of such minorities in certain European States are legally guaranteed, for the first time in history, under the Peace Treaties and it is the duty of the League of Nations to see that the guarantees are properly executed.
