The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1919-04-02
BOLSHEVISTS
OR B0CHE, is
QUESTION UP
TO COUNCIL
Gravest Crisis Facing Confer
ence - Must Cermanys
Terms be Lightened to Halt
Spread of Bolshevism?
FAILURE IS imminent
BY FRANK n. siMoNDS.

tSopyrlSht, 1919. by THE Mcclure News
paper Syndicate)
PARIS, April lit is essential for
Americans to understand at once the
full meaing of the Hungarian episode
OF the last few days. 1t indicates that
Bolshevism has taken a new character
and become infinitely more dangerous
than ii was before. Hitherto it has
been unquestionably directed at the
destruction of existing political and
national bodies, seeking to place uni
versal communism in the saddle in
Europe.
The Hungarian revolution was some.
thing else. 1t was the first step
toward Matchmaking Bolshevism and
using it as weapon for the defense
of national aspirations, ambitions and
claims Of the people.
Analysis of the Episode.
am going to try to analyZe this
Hungarian episode so 1t may be clear
ly understood. for it represents the
most formidable single event since
the armistice.
The Hungarian kingdom as it exist
ed at the moment when the Austro-
hungarian empire collapsed consisted
OF an area larger than that of Italy,
not more than 100000 of which at
most were actually Hungarian. The
rest were subject people, Roumanians,
Serbs, Slovaks. Nor did the Hunga-
rians constitute solid block At
least 100000 were scattered over the
fringes and on the edges of this terri
tory
The allies had alike by their decla.
ration of principle and by their secret
treaties of policy promised that the
subject races in this Hungarian area,
the Roumanians in Pennsylvania and
Banft, the Serbs and Croats in west
ern Banat, Croatia and Slavonia on
the southern edge of the Hungarian
plain, together with the Slovaks in the
mountains northward. should each
have an Independent existence, based
on the right of the self-determination
OF nations.
Program Doomed Hungary.
Such program condemned Hun
gary to conditions of state of little
more than 10.000,000 of people, with
an area hardly larger than that of
New York and New Jersey, without
defensible frontiers, without an out
let to the sea, alike militarily and
economically at the mercy of its
neighbors.
There was no injustice in this de-
cision of the powers. Since subject
people desire liberty, since some of
them, at least, had fought on the allied
side against the Hungarians, they
were entitled to it, but if one looks at
the map a moment. one still sees that
death sentence to the proud people
who had for hundreds of years domin-
ated the country between the brave
and the Carpathians, and regarded the
territory as their own, and other races
as intruders, was thus pronounced.
Immediately after the collapse of
Austria the southern Slavs occupied
western Banato, and in general the
line OF the Brave river. thus cutting
off quarter of Hungary. At first the
Roumanians occupied only half of
Pennsylvania, while the Slovaks
promptly seized the mountain regions
between the crest of the Carpathians
and the Hungarian plain. Last week
the Roumanians at last persuaded the
allies to permit them to advance and
occupy substantially all the Hunga-
rian region inhabited by the Rouma-
mans, and an ultimatum demanding
hungarian retirement in conformity
with this situation was served on Hun
gary. IN the presence of this demand,
karolyi resigned. and turned the coun-
try over to the Bolshevists.
Surrender at the Top.
Actually the situation was such that
no government could live in Hungary
which agreed to the ultimatum or in
Dictated a willingness to accept a