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The article focuses on the interest in international education as an aid to world peace. As long as the world's fate was decided by the "divine rights" of crowned heads it was their inspiration or interest that carried weight. Even when the conduct of diplomacy passed into the hands of men of less exalted birth, international relations were reserved for practitioners of an occult science. Diplomacy was still secret. Toilers in the dark recesses of foreign offices kept out the searchlight of public curiosity, like medieval alchemists trying to extract gold out of base metal. These depositories of deep secrets were also carriers of ancient traditions, the permanent officials. The nominal heads of the foreign offices were frequently "innocents abroad." Nor did the Marxist view help in creating a more auspicious atmosphere for the understanding of great international problems under the capitalists' rule. The materialistic interpretation of history held that historic events were determined by economic motives that, under the capitalist regime interests.

This article presents information on Hungary. Hungary occupies the very center of the broad belt of nationalities that extends from the Baltic to the Adriatic. While that belt is inhabited by a medley of Slavs, Germans, and Latins, the Hungarians are Finnish-Ugrians, related to the Finns and several tribes in Russia, hence they are an alien body. The Hungarian came from the East, settled on the outskirts of Central Europe, and promptly established contact with the West. The Hungarian system of education was also a replica of the German one. In the social field, that school cultivated unquestioning obedience to authority. In order not to be entrapped by temptation, attention was fastened on the past, while the present was all but ignored. The school was the ideological projection of the barracks. In all fields, memory was strengthened, often at the expense of original thinking. Hungarian architecture ignored the Byzantine influence of the East and sought to copy the monumental Gothic, as in the Hungarian parliament.