The sun., 1919-04-06
SAYS HUNGARIANS
ARE WILSONITES
Alexis Bolgar, Envoy at Wen
ma, Admits Working With
Lenine and Spartacans.
OPPOSED TO TERRORISM
Willing to Employ 1t, How
ever When Necessary
Conquest by Ideals.

VIENNA, April . (delayed) Discus
sing the general situation, the Hungar-
ian Representative, Alexis Bolgar, who
is well known in the United States, said
TO the Associated Press:
at Is true that we have agitators
here in the legation attempting to COM
munise Vienna / believe communism
Is coming here. II IL hoped without
violence, although the bourgeoisie are
less peaceably inclined than at Budapest.
ut Is true that we are working with
Lenine and the Spartacans. 1t Is only
natural. We are against TERRORISM ex-
cept when necessary. We Hungarians
are Wilsonites. All we ask is to be
let alone; we leave others alone. We
do not desire to promote agitation in
other countries, but IL armies are sent
against us, we conquer them by the
force of our ideals.
Yes. I am Bolshevist. IL you like,
but really we are all Socialists. Boil
shevism was only the extreme phase
necessary to establish socialism. Our
property ideas. for Instance, differ from
those of Henry George. whose opinions
while interesting reading. were out OF
date.
Our idea Is to nationalist production
not consumption. We have no intention
of levelling all citizens. individuals. with
us. will have free play for their intel
ligence. an opportunity to work and &c
earn a reasonable amount of money
Count Karolyi played fair with us, but
he reached the point where he was
powerless."
II wanted a Socialistic, not Com
munistic government. and had no idea
that there would be such extremes as
the naturalization Of property" Count
Michael karolyi former head of the
Hungarian Government. Is quoted In o
despatch from Budapest as saying In
comment on the Communist Government
which has succeeded his in Hungary.
The Count still spends much time at
the Offices OF the Hunga rian Ministry.
Dispatches from Budapest say that Ka-
rolyi Is held by some Hungarians to be
a fool, by others to be a patriot and by
still others TO be an aristocrat posing
as q Socialist.
Austrians Of the old regime have
never forgiven the Hunearians for their
desertion during tho final battles on
the italian front. They lay this action
by the Hungarians to Count Karolyi,
because. they say. he hoped thereby to
receive favorable treatment from the
Allies. The Count. 1t is said. worked
hard to prevent the dlsmemberment of
hungary.
Baron Satvan. one Of Hungary's rich
est and most enterprising citizens. is
now employed as clerk at Budapest.
Many of the prominent families have
been interned there, one of them being
that OF Manfred Won Weis a gun manu-
facturer, who has been imprisoned in
the attic of the family home on An
Grassy street. Four proletariat families
occupy the rest of the mansion Armed
servants are guarding the house. with
orders to kill the prisoners If they at
tempt to escape.
Simon Strauss. former Director-Gen-
eral OF the great Magyar bank and one
OF the best known financiers of Hungary
has offered his services to the new gov.
eminent and has been accepted as a
bookkeeper. He Is now working in q
bank under the supervision OF Com
munist.
Strauss began his banking career in