Toward a New Central Europe

Contents Cover Foreword Our Contributors Introduction to the History of Central Europe Francis S. Wagner PART I INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS 1. Signs of the times a) On an East-West Security Conference b) Toward a Third Way in a New Central Europe 2. Toward a Constructive Ideology and Policy in a New Central Europe Eugene Padanyi-Gulyas 3. Neutralization of a Buffer Zone Between Germany and Russia The Possibility of a Neutralized Zone in Central Europe Edward Chaszar Austrian Neutrality and European Integration Fritz Bock Ideas of an Austrian on the Coexistence of Nations in the Danubian and Carpathian Basins Josef Matl Three Neglected Documents on Self-Determination and Neutrality Miroslav Lazarovich 4. Central Europe in East-West Relations Britain and Eastern Europe C. A. Macartney American Interests and Obligations in the Danubian Basin Albert Wass Croatia and Central Europe Stjepan Buc What has to be done Stan Ionescu Scanning the Horizon: World Politics and Central Europe Tibor Eckhardt Forgotten Sentiments: The British Labour Party and Central Europe Alexander Gallus The Second Phase of German Foreign Policy in Eastern Europe Wenzel Jaksch The Hungarian Freedom Fight and the Entry of the Soviet Army Istvan Szentpaly The Poet Yevtushenko and Peace in Central Europe G. H. Sikorsky The Place of East Central Europe in Western Civilization Edward Chaszar VII PART II FEDERALISM IN CENTRAL EUROPE From Kossuth's Unknown Federalist Papers Bela Talbot Kardos Federation in Central Europe Milan Hodza Danubian Federatio F. O. Miksche Regional Federalism or a New Cataclysm Miroslav Lazarovich Problems of Federalism in the Danubian Area Bela Talbot Kardos Initiatives Toward Cooperation in the Danubian Basin in the 19th and 20th Centuries Pal Auer Federalist Aspirations in East Central Europe Edmund I. Lazar Nationalism vs. Federalism in Historical Perspective Francis S. Wagner Central European Federation Including Switzerland Gyula Tassonyi East Central European Unity Joseph Galganowicz Covenant of the Peoples in the Carpathian and Danubian Basins Eugene Padanyi-Gulyas A Safeguard of Peace in East Central Europe Ferenc Koszorus Missed Opportunities for Federalization Bela Padanyi-Gulyas Slovakia and the Integration Plans of Central Europe Joseph M. Kirschbaum Czech and Slovak Statesmen in Favor of a Central European Federation Joseph Ostrovsky Pronouncements on Federalism in the Danubian and Central European Area The mid-European Research Institute, New York, NY Manifesto for a Danubian Federation Be1a Bartok, Zoltan Kodaly, Endre Ady and others. VIII PART III THE NATIONALITY QUESTION Pseudo-National States or Real National Identities in Central Europe Alexander Gallus Socio-Linguistics for a Just Peace in the Danubian Basin Adam Makkai Cultural Pluralism and the Study of Complex Societies in Anthropology Alexander Gallus The Hungarian Minority Problem in Rumania International Commission of Jurists The Hungarian Minority Problem in Transylvania A letter from the Federalist union of European Nationalities (FUEN) The Situation of Hungarians in Transylvania and Rumania Memorandum of the American Transylvanian Federation The Nationality Problem in Czechoslovakia After World War II Francis S. Wagner The Changing Image of T. G. Masaryk Between 1945 and 1968 Francis S. Wagner PART IV ECONOMIC PROBLEMS Micro- or Macro-Economics of the Central European Nations Richard Bartoniek Cooperatives: Problems and Solutions George Keler PART V APPENDIX - Maps and Statistical Data Numerical Strength and Growth of the Danubian Nations Between 1851 and 1967 The third-European Research Institute, New York, NY

Toward a New Central Europe