MAĐARSKA ŠTAMPA O UBISTVU KRALJAALEKSANDRA I KARAĐORĐEVIĆA
Hungarian Newspapers about the Assassination of the King Alexander I.

Summary/Abstract: The Treaty of Trianon on June 4, 1920, with which the First World War was finished for Hungary, it had effected the Hungarian state and society very painfully and suficiantlly. The overwhelming majority of the Hungarians felt humiliated and were curtained that the great injustice had been done to Hungary by the decisions of the Peace Conference. The practice of the Trianon Treaty impressed in all Hungarian's political circles' mind the idea of the vital need for the revision of the state's borders. That idea meant the return of all territories of the Holy Hungarian Crown of St. Stephen. But it also meant realisation of the ethnic borders, i.e., that all territories inhabited with the compact Hungarian population ought to come over Hungarian state. These Hungarian geopolitics aims forced Czechoslovakia, Rumania and Yugoslavia into forming the alliance called the Little Entente (Mala Dohoda). The original goal of the Little Entente was put up the jointly resistance to eventual Hungarian attack, and the preven-tion of threats of the Treaty of Trianon and the special situation established in the Danube Basin by that Treaty.[...] Hungary has being secretly but persistently supported the Croatian ustasha rebels movement and maintained the contacts with the Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organisation (VMRO). These countries also collaborated with the secessionist Albanian Committee of Kosovo. By supporting these terrorist organisations, Italy and Hungary intended to weaken, but indeed to destroy Yugoslavia. In Zurich on July 24, 1933, Tibor Eckhardt (1888–1960?), the leader of the Hungarian revisionist league, achieved the agreement with Ante Pavelic about of dismantlement of Yugoslavia and the assassination of the King Alexander. Hungary was accused on the direct involvement in the assassination of the King Alexander in Marseilles, and on that occasion, Yugoslavia lodged the complaint to the League of Nations, which was considered in the Council on December 1934. In the Hungarian newspaper, the writing about the assassination of the King Alexander was based on the stereotypes. [...].The assassination was explained as the consequence of direct conflict between Serbian-Yugoslav idea and Croatian national idea. The presence of the Croatian emigrants on the Hungarian territory has been justified by national oppression of the Croats during Serbian dictatorship in Yugoslavia. The newspapers anticipated that the war would have been possible, and the dissolution of Yugoslavia and the weakness of Serbia were expected. In the wider sense the assassination was considered as the result of the situation created by the Peace Treaty, which destroyed the stability of the Danube Basin. The newspapers categorically denied any accusation that Hungary was responsible for the assassination of the King Alexander. The newspapers served the Hungarian state interests and provide the justification for its deeds.

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