November 2, 1938, and on March 15, 1939, it was incorporated by force   
                       into Hungary.                        
 
                                                            
 
 
The area of Subcarpathian Ruthenia is 4,871 square miles.  The   
population in 1930 was 725,357, of whom 450,925 (62.17 percent) were   
Ruthenian (Ukrainian); 34, 511 (4.76 percent)  Czechoslovak; 13,804   
(1.90 percent), German; 115,805 (15.98 percent), Magyar; and 95.008   
(13.10 percent) Jewish.  A mountainous and agriclutural region, the   
region had stratigic significance for Czechozlovakia in that it   
separated Poland from Hungary and provided a connecting link with   
Rumania. If Eastern Galicia is acquired by Russia, Czechoslovakia's   
retention of Ruthenia would give it a common frontier with Russia on the   
Carpathians.  There is some possibility that the Soviet Union itself   
might absoeb Ruthenia, in view of the preponderantly Ukrainian-speaking   
                population of that province.                
 
                                                            
 
 
13. NORTHERN BUKOVINA TO THE LINE OF RUSSIAN OCCUPATION.--Formerly   
belongling to Austria-Hungary, Bukovina was renounced in the treaty of   
St. Germein, September 10, 1919, and awarded to Rumania by the treaty of   
Sevres, August 10, 1920.  The Northern part of it was occupied by   
Russian troops onJune 28, 1940, and formally incorporated into the   
Ukrainian SSR on August 2, 1940.  It was occupied by Rumania from 1941   
 to 1944, and has since be re-occupied by the Soviet Union. 
 
                                                            
 
 
The area of Northern Bukovina is approximately 2,240 square miles.  Its   
total population, according to the Rumanian census of 1930, was 529,462,   
of whom 267,908 were Russians and Ukrainians by mother-tongue and   
                  137,073 were Rumanians.                   
 
                                                            
 
 
14. BESSARABIA.-- Bessarabia was a province of pre-1917 Russia.  An   
assembly representing the majority Rumanian element in the population   
proclaimed its independence on December 17, 1917, and, during Rumanina   
military occupatio, voted its union with Rumania on April 8 and November   
27, 1918.  Rumania's sovereignty was recognized in the treaty of Paris,   
October 28, 1920, by Great Britian, France, Italy and Japan.  The USSR   
reoccupoed Bessarabia on July 28, 1940 and on August 2, united the   
northen and southern portions with the Ukrainian SSR and formed the   
Moldavian SSR of the remainder, together with parts of the former   
      Moldavian SSR. It was occupied by Rumanian from       
 
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