On February 10, 1947, the Great Powers had another opportunity to enforce the until- then-disregarded minority treaties. This was expected because on August 14, 1941, the Atlantic Charter was signed, and it too (like the earlier Wilsonian principles) emphasized the right to self-determination and to plebiscites. Yet, not a single plebiscite was allowed. In fact, rump Hungary was further violated by the transfer of additional land to Slovakia. This transfer, later, made possible the construction which unilaterally and illegally transferred the Danube, Hungary's border river, onto Slovak territory (in 1992) and to build a hydroelectric dam, thereby destroying Europe's oldest wetland region.

At the end of the Second World War, the worst crime of legalistic hypocrisy occurred: Eduard Benes, with the scandalous connivance of the Western Allies, invented the concept of collective responsibility and used it to confiscate the properties of the Hungarian minorities in Slovakia and later, to deport them in cattle cars. To understand the hypocrisy of this deed, one must realize that wartime Slovakia under Tiso was a protector ate of Nazi Germany, while it was the representative of the Hungarian minority in the Slovak parliament, János Esterházy, who cast the only dissenting vote against the Jewish laws, which were passed by that body. Yet, after the war, Esterházy died in Czechoslova kian jail and the Hungarian minorities he represented were collectively sentenced as war criminals. Thereby, when the deported Jewish Hungarians returned from the death camps, they found their properties confiscated, because of their collective responsibility.