International frictions, like Paris frocks, run to style. And just as frocks which pursue vogue too breathlessly make ladies stick out in the wrong places, stylish frictions often make nations look silly. Recent fashion in creating conflicts has been to discover an oppressed minority. Last week, as long-smoldering Hungarian-Rumanian feelings suddenly flared up, the style slipped over into the realm of absurdity.
Crux of the Budapest-Bucharest discord has been Transylvania, which Hungary lost to Rumania in 1918. Last week Hungarian newspapers, notably the semiofficial Pester Lloyd, mouthpiece of ambitious Foreign Minister...
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