The Greeneville daily sun. (Greeneville, Tenn.) 1918-1920, 1918-11-07
LEE HUNGARIAN aREPuRLlc.-

puts Inat country CUT 81 the wal, Goes NOT put M emu
any way to the various internal problems facing e Qua
monarchy and indirectly the allies On the contrary
renders them more acute.
One Of the chief Of these is the position of Hungary
That kingdom fortnight ago proclaimed its ndepend
ence and more recently Count Karolyi went sti fur
ther and announced the establishment Of republic This
solution Of the crisis would offer no difficulties if in Hun
gary we were dealing with political entity. But this
is not the case In no country there such conflicts
race in that part of the Austrian empire In no coun
try the subject so oppressed the Serbs
and Roumanians by the Magyar If the new republic
is to be Magyar one and the Serbs and Roumanians
to remain the helots of the magnates then the
republic" only camOudage to perpetrate one Of the
cruelest oligarchies in Europe
few days ago Count Stephen Tsza was assassinated
in Budapest by mutnous soldiers Count Tisza was one
Of the chief artisans of the present world war He it was
who inspired if he did not actually draw up the nsolent
ultmatum to Serbia intended to cause the outbreak
the European conagration It was by his orders that
the first gun fred from the historic tower Of Hun
yadi-Janos at Semn against the fortress of Belgrade
He ncarnaed the hatred of the Magyar for everything
Serb for the nation which barred the route to the rea
cation Of the conquest in the East dreamed by the Mag
vars and their German accomplices
few weeks before his death Count Tisza went IL
Sarajevo the capital of Bosnia, to receive memoran-
dunn from deputato nof the inhabitants Of that purely
Serbian country demanding their independence from the
Austro-Hungarian yoke. Count Tisza, in full uniform,
his chest covered with decorations received the deputa
ton standing up. He did not even invite its members
to be seated hThe Austrian rechsrath has already su
fcently covered with shame by its debates" he de-
clared "No union with the Sovenes can be permitted
Dr. korosetz their leader is agent of the entente
and we will tolerate the Slovenes in the Hun
garian state If the Croas wish to continue to exist they
must separate from the Serbs After the war Serbia
will be reduced that Bulgaria can pulverze it when
ever she wishes. Your memorandum smells Of Prague
and Laibach. The union of the Serbs Croats and Slo
venes is in opposition with the organization of Hungary
and cannot be granted We do not admit the principle
of self-determnation."
To the protests Of the deputation Count Tisza replied
humping with his fist on the table and crimson with
RACES If we must perish we are sufficiently strong be-
fore ruin to destroy you ALL"
There spoke the true spirit of the Magyar the ruling
power in Hungary for century past Nothing that has
happened in the last six months not even the procaa
ton Of republic in Hungary gives any proof or guar
antee that this spirit changed Are the Magyars willing
to allow the Roumanans of BukOwna and Transylvana
to unite themselves with their brothers of Roumana and
the Serbs and Croats of Cratia and Serbs of the Bana
OF Temesvar to unite themselves with their brothers in
race and form the kingdom of the Serbs Croats and
Slovenes as provided for by the declaration Of Corfu
The whole question there If they do not do 50 and
If the republic keeps these under the Magyar yoke
there is only change of label At bottom the former
intoeTable situation will continue It is for this reason
that the American public must not now itself to be de-
ceived by such wesOunding phrases declaration Of
and proclamation Of republic" as un
less the spirit Of independence and repubcanism really
exists they remain empty words. And there is unfOr
tunatey nothing in the recent events in Hungary which
ustes the belief that the Magyar spirit has been ehas
tened or that it is ready to make the sacrifices the op
pressed nations demand of Washington Post