The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-03-25
Bolshevism In Hungary.

With the overthrow of the Karolyi
Ministry and the setting up Of
Soviet republic in Hungary, Bolshev-
ism as a governmental force for the
first time crosses the western frontier
Of Russia and enters central Europe.
In thus breaking over the barrier
which had hitherto prevented its e1-
pansion Bolshevism challenges anew
the Powers Of western Europe and
so materially changes the situation
as to compel a different attitude on
the Eastern question at the Paris
Peace Conference.
Premier KARoLYI In announcing
his resignation laid the responsibility
for the change in government upon
the Allies, declaring that they in
tended to occupy Hungary merely as
region for operations against the
Russian Soviet army, and that the
land thus evacuated by the Hunga-
rians was to be turned over to the
Czecho-Slovak troops. In reality
Hungary has been most fruitful soil
for the sowing of Bolshevist seeds.
LEVINE and TRoTzKY undertook in
Hungary one of the first Of their
aggressive foreign campaigns. They
found here a state In which the Mag
var domination was as autocratic as
the rule of the Gar in Russia, q
state in which the land was largely
held and controlled by the ruling
classes.
They found too in the temper of
the people an unusual opportunity
for magnifying governmental dis.
ordinations into grievances which
could be remedled by Bolshevist rev.
| olutionary methods. The Hungarian
republic of which KARoLYI was the
head was largely the outcome Of this
revolutionary spirit. and Bolshevism
in declaring Soviet government
merely comes into Its own.
The information from Austria and
Switzerland Is to the effect that the
Hungarian Soviet government Is act.
ing in cooperation with the Moscow
government and that the Hungarian
Premier in calling upon LEVINE fol
military aid against the Entente Pow.
ers addressed him as "Chief Of the
Universal Soviet" That the Moscow
| government Is In position to furnish
a military force to Hungary may bt
I questioned. 1t has sent troops into
southern Russia, and 1t has an army
in Ukraine and Galicia, according &c
reports, but the effectiveness Of Boil
shevist army in promoting the doc
trines Of Moscow has not yet beer
shown. In fact, all Of the campaigns
which have been undertaken by the
Russian War Office have resulted II
failure. The reports are as yet too
meagre to give an indication of thu
action that may be taken by the Al
lied troops which were earlier sen
into Hungary or the troops In south
ern Europe.
But whether or not the Russian
Soviet will be able to force Bolshevisn
by military aid, 1t is fact that It ha,
made very material gain in tn,
west. 1t is matter Of serious con
Germ that all the forces which nigh
make for stable government In Hun
gary have to all appearances givel
way to the forces of disorgan,za tior
and terror. In the present unsettle,
after war conditions there exists tn
: same menace to the governments II
, Rumania, Poland, Austria and Ger
many. In Rumania and Poland tn
! propaganda from Moscow has bee,
very active, and 1t has been defeate,
so far only by the sternest and mos
aggressive measures. The SpartacaI
} groups in Germany and Austria will
find In the Hungarian situation rea
sons for the renewal of their fight 70
: control in both of these countries.
i The present situation has no doub