Plans of the Catholic and Protestant Youth for the Cooperation of Central European Peoples in the 1930s
Plans of the Catholic and Protestant Youth for the Cooperation of Central European Peoples in the 1930s

Summary/Abstract: Hungary regained consciousness with difficulty from the shock of Trianon. In the following years it was an unambiguous fact for most people that future is only meant by the regaining of territories ceded, the revision. The Churches entirely identified with this idea too – at least in their external manifestations- and became supporters of the governmental irredentist politics. But at the beginning of the 1930s a new generation emerged related to the Churches, which, in contrast, propagated the collaboration of the nations of the Danube basin and the plan to organize them in a union. The ideas of the Catholic and the Protestant youth can broadly be seen as parallel to each other, but so many kinds of different trends were in this tendency as many people dealt with the question. However, beside the same features on the basis of several important traits the Catholic and the Protestant notions can be separated from one another, these rooted in denominational differences. Although both groups advocated the necessity of the Danube basin co-operation, the basic difference between them is how they imagined this, with the participation of which nations. The Catholics unambiguously turned to West, and kept aloof from the East, they always looked for allies in West, first of all in the Catholic Austria. In contrast to this the situation is just reversed at the Protestants. They looked towards East and South, mostly seeking relations with Rumania and Jugoslavia.

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