The first decision in Vienna was made on November 2, 1938 in the dispute between Hungary and Czechoslovakia, and it essentially implemented the ethnic revision.
At the suggestion of Italy, it was included in the clause of the Munich Agreement of September 29 that Czechoslovakia should settle its territorial disputes with Poland and Hungary. October 9-13, 1938 Hungarian-Czechoslovakian negotiations took place in North Komárom, where Hungary was represented by Minister of Foreign Affairs Kálmán Kánya and Minister of Education Pál Teleki. In the absence of a mutual agreement, when the negotiations ended (on October 29, 1938), the two countries requested arbitration from the great powers that signed the Munich Convention. Since Great Britain and France withdrew from the decision-making citing lack of interest, the arbitrators were the German foreign ministers Joachim von Ribbentrop and the Italian foreign ministers Galeazzo Ciano.
The first peacetime Vienna decision was recognized by the European powers (including Great Britain and France) as valid under international law, but they changed their position only during the Second World War.
Hungary got back about 12,000 km² of the territories taken by the Trianon Peace Treaty, the south-western strip of the then-autonomous Slovakia and Subcarpathia along the Hungarian border, with Érsekújvár, Kassa, Ungvár, Beregszás and Munkácc. However, Hungary did not get Bratislava and Nitra, which it demanded. At the same time, the German-majority Pozsonyligetfalu and Dévény became part of the Third Empire. The 1941 Hungarian census found 1,62,000 inhabitants in the ceded territory, 84% of whom were Hungarians and about 10% Slovaks.
Hungarians always had success when they stuck together, when they came together as a whole. This is still necessary today: to accept criticism, to correct mistakes and to unite! If we are able to do this, then our success will come. - writes Ferenc Zétényi-Csukás in his note on the Hungaryfirst portal, and then continues
I believe in us!
The victorious Allied Powers in the First World War dismembered Hungary with a demeaning and unjust dictum called the "Peace Treaty of Trianon" and gave the annexed territories with their millions of Hungarians to neighboring countries.
The will and faith were the only things to be strong enough to persevere and confess that injustice cannot last forever and that the annexed territories will "return" one day, the Hungarian population will return to the motherland.
And the dream became reality.
- on November 2nd…
Indescribable, indescribable euphoric joy, crying people, villages and towns dressed in red, white and green. Flowers rained down on the Hungarian goats, and the Hungarian creed sounded new and new on the lips of millions:
"I believe in one God, I believe in one country: I believe in a divine eternal truth, I believe in the resurrection of Hungary!
Amen."
Source : hungaryfirst.hu/wikipedia
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