Der Deutsche correspondent. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1841-1918, 1916-09-15
HUNGARY NNEDs no ADVICE.

HUNGARY NEEDS NO ADVICE.
THE correspondent Of the Reuter-
Bureau in Budapest has become a
standing figure in the war news OF
our pro-British press. It is, Of
course, hardly necessary, to explain
that the existence OF an English cor
respondent in Budapest is an alb
solute impossibility while the two
countries, England and Hungary,
are at war with each other Every
child knows that and 1t is really un-
necessary to lose another word about
1t. One might as well make an at
tempt at proving that black is black,
and white is white.
In spite Of this we are told ever so
often that the Correspondent of the
Reuter-Bureau has telegraphed from
Budapest" that the Hungarians are
tired Of the war, that they are look
ing for a seperate peace, that they
are disgusted with the Germans and
their leadership and so on. For OBJ
vious reasons these statements must
be regarded as bare-faced lies, there
is no other way out Of it, They
simply cannot be true
A prominent German statesman
once said he would erect a monu-
ment to the successors of Baron Paul
julius Won Reuter- who emigrated
from Germany to England in 1851
as soon as they would publish the
truth the first time.
That was few years ago and
Reuter- is still waiting for his monu-
ment.
1t is, OF course, very foolish
policy for the English to keep the
public in ignorance as to facts Of the
war and create false hopes among
their people, but that is their own
business, and the American press,
too, is perfectly free to publish this
nonsense as long as their readers
stand for 1t. But it becomes a dif-
ferent matter If there are news
papers in this country which take
this manifestly invented information
seriously and base their editorials
on 1t. Such procedure is nothing less
than foul attempt to make use Of
the credulity Of the public, II is an
objectionable abuse of the public
confidence and an almost criminal
misuse of the influence and the
power Of tho press
It is well nigh impossible to mag
inc the excitement it would create
in our country If a German news
paper in Germany should dare to adj
wise Texas or any other state TO make
itself Independent, to dissolve their
ties Of unity with the other states of
our Union. The excitement and the
anger would be well justified as such
an act would be nothing less than
a plain unfriendliness. 1t would be
an unspeakable indecency, and the
paper, which made itself guilty of it,
would be rebuked by the people and
the Government.
The attempt Of American news
papers to advise Hungary to dissolve
its unity with Austria, to make itself
Independent and to sue for separate
peace with the Allies Is no less a
violation OF public propriety and de-
corum than a similar attempt would
be on the part of German news
papers Besides being an inexpress-
ible imDudence it shows at the same
time that the men who give such adj
vice have not the slightest idea Of
affairs. They take the
clamoring of a noisy minority in the
Hungarian parliament too serious,
and the wish, that Hungary should
sue for separate peace and thus
weaken the Central Powers is merely
the father OF the thought.
The Hungarians have proved that
they are well able to take care OF
and that they do not need
the advice of our pro-British editors.
Before discussing such serious I
problems editorially these gentlemen
should acquaint themselves with the
facts and not simply babble and par
rot-like repeat what London tells
them.
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