New-York tribune., 1919-07-19
Former Head of Republic
Reported Safe in Italy
After Arrest by Austria
and Return to His Home
Sees Ruin in Peace Treaty
Central Europe S'Cone to
Dogs He Says i'm Protest
at Imposed Allied Terms

BERLIN, July 18 (By The Asso-
ciated Press).-Count Michael Karolyi,
former President of the Hungarian Re-
public, has arrived in Italy after
several attempts to leave Hungary and
will go to America, according to a
Vienna dispatch to the "Kreuzzeitung.'
Several weeks ago, it is said, Count
Karolyi escaped to Austria, but he was
made prisoner by the Austrians and
returned to Budapest. The count, -ho
dispatch adds, then sought and pro
cured the assistance of the Italian
charge of guard to Italy by way oil
innsbruck.
Coming to America
The Vienna dispatch concludes:
"He will, however, have to leave
Italy for America immediately"
Bella Kun, the Communist Foreign
Minister, the dispatch says, permitted
Count Karolyi to retain his available
cash and securities.
When the armistice with Austria
Hungary was signed last November
Count Michael Karolyi, who had been
the leader of the Hungarian Indepen-
dence party, proclaimed an Hungarian
Republic. He remained in Office until
late in March, when he resigned and
turned owes the authority to the Com
munists, headed by Bella Kun. He gave
as reason for his action the plea that
he could not recognize the boundaries
conference.
Was Here in 1914
Advices received in peace conference
circles in Paris Thursday said that
Bella Kun had been driven from Office
and that disorders had occurred in
Budapest 1t was declared that the
intcgrating rapidly. General Boehm and
Herr Lander were said to have seized
the reins Of power.
Count Karolyi sailed from New York
for Europe, after visit of several
months in the United States. on July
20, 1914. He was detained by the
French authorities for several months,
but was finally permitted to proceed
10 Hungary.
BUDAPEST, July l Correspondence
of The Associated Press America
ought to have the role of fighting
Karolyi, former President Of the Hun
garian Republic, told the Associated
Press correspondent to-day. The
count continued to denouncc the peace
treaty, declaring that it's terms are i'm
possible and that the boundaries tixe.l
TOR Hungary are ruinous.
Central Europe has gone to the
dogs" the count continued. "You are
astonished by Bolshevism here Block
ade Paris, and it will go Communist,
too. The Allies say, we cannot talk
to such Bolsheviki.' That is making a
comedy of politics. 1t is treating the
people of Europe as though they were
Zulus.
Beggars Cannot Buy
"You want to sell us goods, but beg
gars cannot buy shoes nor motor cars
Before the war we exported two thirds
of our coal Now we are left with two
small coal mines, no forests, no oil
no salt, no iron, no electric or water
power We are left only our wheat
lands and mineral water.
"Wlthout free trade the league of
nations is useless so far as we are con-
cerned While President Wilson never
mentioned this, he must have had it in
mind when he formed his fourtce en
points. Now his too modern conceptions
have been dropped in Difference to the
English and French military parties.
both French and Italian policies of
buffer states are impracticable. 1t is
fruitless to attempt balances of power
The more you try to avoid future wars
the more certain it is that they will
come. Already Germany is being
educated to a policy of revenge, nj
though the league of natio:s cannot
have hatred as its basis. 1t is no long
er question of Bolshevism or non-
Bolshevism for the Central Empires
but g question of standing or fallin,,
together.
"The German people were not respon-
sible for the war; it was the Kaiser
the Ludendorffs and the like, who
might we'll all be sent to ST. Helena
together with Germany's bankers and
steel manufacturers.