New-York tribune., 1919-03-27
State Department Not 10
Take Stand OH Hungar-
ian Unrising While the
Leaders Are A broa d
Watch Germany Closely
Officials Trip to Moscow
and Other Questions
Keep Washington Astir
Nem Yo,s Tribune
WGshin gto,a Bureau

WASHINGTON, March 26.-The sit
uations in Hungary and Russia are
matters for consideration and deter
mination by the peace conference at
Paris and are not being officially con-
sidered or determined here. The State
dent Wilson and Secretary Lansing,
has expressed no opinion and will ex-
press none, it was learned to-day.
The publication to-day of state
ment credited to "an official of the
State Department. in which the official
was declared to have said, "The time
had come for the Allied nations repre-
sented at Paris to take a definite and
firm stand against Bolshevism," was
said not to represent the position of
the State Department.
Interest was manifested in diplo-
matte quarters here to-day in the off
cisl visit to Moscow of Herr Kautskv.
an der-secretarY of the Berlin For
elgn Office, to study Bolshevik institu-
tlons with the view of effecting closer
relations between Germany and Rus
sia. The fact that Kautsky was dis
patched to Moscow at the approximate
time of the rise to power of the Hun
garian Bolsheviki strengthens the be-
lief of officials here that events in
hungary have been greatly influenced,
1t not engineered, by the Berlin govern
ment.
Advantages to Germany
The advantages to German of Great
ing in Hungary Bolshevik menace to
Europe were held to be patent. If the
Aimed powers can be frightened suffi-
Gently, 1T was pointed out, Germany
would be more favorably situated for
demanding radical modification in the
treaty Of peace, and if these were not
granted IN refusing to ratify the treaty
In the present circumstances Mos
COW has become the distinct rival of
Paris and there is thought to be a
definite possibility of The government
at Moscow, encouraged by the success
OF the Soviet principle in Hungary.
publishing an appeal to all the peoples
aligned IN the war against the Entente
Allies, calling upon them to resist the
peace of Paris and cspousc Bolshcvism.
1T was asserted by Allied diplomats
to-day that it is not the military
menace of Hungary which is feared
That IS declared to be neglibe-but the
possibility of Bolshcvism spreading
The difficulty Of handling the situation
effectively was said to lie in the prin-
clples proclaimed by the Allies, which
guarantee to each nation the right of
sell determination. There exists no
recognized principle, it was stated by
which the Allied powers would be justi-
tied in sending an expedition into Hun
gary to suppress Bolshevism, as the
people of Hungary have the rioht to
choose and constitute their own govern
mcnt without interference by foreign
pressure
Danger in SIovak Nations
The dangerous fact confronting tho
Allied powers, however, is tho proxim-
lty OF Czccho-S -Slovakia, Jugo- -Slavia, Bul-
garla and Rumania to Hungary. 1t is
not known to what extent the inhabi-
tants of the territories detached from
Hungary-thosc in PENNSYLVANIA. for
example, numbering more than 900 900
have been Magyarized and conse-
quently may be susceptible to Hun
garlan tendencies 1t is also not vet
established whether the new govern
mcnt in Hungary, with its appeal to
the proletariat especially of Jugo-
Slavla and Of Czccho- -Slovakia and Ru-
mama also, will exercise more influence
over the masses OF the people than the
governments at Belgrade, Prague and
bucharest, respectively.
1t is known that at Belgrade the ut
most concern is felt The government
there has repeatedly dra-n the atten-
tlon OF the peace conference to it's diff
hcuitlcs IN the former Austro- huh
garlan territories which arc to be as
signed TO the new kingdom of the Serbs
Croats and Slcvenes. owing to lack of
recognition by the Entente powers Of