"the Peace Treaty of Trianon, which deprived [the Hungarians] of their rights, cannot be the source of our rights."
Vilmos Vazsonyi
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October 27, 1924
Quote from Levai, Jeno. Zsidosors Magyarorszagon (Jewish Fate in Hungary). Budapest: Magyar Teka, 1948. Reprinted in Braham, Randolph L. The Politics of Genocide: The Holocaust in Hungary. New York: Columbia University Press, 1981.
In 1920 the Numerus Clausus was enacted in Hungary for a short period (until international pressure caused it to be rescinded). It limited the number of Jews admitted to universities to six percent of the student body. This act went against the Protection of Minorities Act of the Treaty of Trianon. But the Jews of Hungary had so fervently thrust themselves into Magyarization that their "official" position on the Protection of Minorities Act was summed up by Vilmos Vazsonyi (he had previously been Hungary's Minister of Justice) when he told the Jewish community of Pest,