El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1919-04-05
PEACE FARLEY
NAY END IN WAR
Germans May Use Bolshe.
vism AS Tool For Effect
ing Revival.

4ug revival.
Continued from page II
to western democracy and eastern
And now we have come TO the
supreme crisis After five months
we discover that the world can
not be eomprehended in n single
1aith; that all our promises were
] mistaken. and that we stand In the
shadow either Of surrender TO an
enemy who win never rest until
he eonGuerE us-fhat Is hoishevism
or accommodation with m enemy
who Is only waiting to resume
thar Is Germanism.
We who set out to make the
world safe for democracy are now
hesitating as to whether we shall
wake IL sure. either Cor the Ger
nisn or the bOIsheviSt.
The Hungarian Coup.
To more fully understand the stu
alton, It Is essential for Americans IA
understand at once the fun meaning
OF the Hungarian episode Of the last
rev DAYS. It indicates that bolshe-
Flsm mas taken a wholly new char
acLer and become infinitely mare dam
! gerous than II was before Hitherto.
-ll has been unQuestiOnably directed
I ar the destruction OF existing nolitf-
lcal and national bodies seeking TO
D . .
] die in Europe.
The Hungarian revolution was
I something else. II was the first step
I towards Matchmaking bolshevism and
using II as a weapon for the defence
. of national aspirations. ambitions ana
claims Of the peoples.
Inc Hungarian kingdom as q eE-
lSted at the moment when the Austro-
Hungarian empire collapsed consist
e. OF an area somewhat larger than
lnaI OF italy. with a population Of up-
wards OF p. COO 600. not more than ten
Of which at most were actually Hun
garian: the rest were subject peoD1e
-kumanians, Serbs and SIovaks. Nor
aid the Hungarians constitute a solid
block At least 1000. 600 were scat
tsreu over the fringes and on the
edges OF this territory.
Hungary Was ssIn Bad
The allies had alike by their decIa-
rations Of principle and by their Sc
cret treaties Of policy promised that
the subject OF races IN this HUNGARIAN
area the Rumanians in Pennsylvania
and Banft, the Serbs and Croats IN
W eslern Banat, Croatia and Slavonia
on the southern edge Of the HunEarian
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.
gary TO conditions OF a state Of little
more than 100000 Of people with an
area hardly larger than that OF New
OK and New Jersey. without defen-
slple frontiers without an outlet on
the sea. alike militarilv and econornf- I
cally at the mercy OF its neighbors
There was no Injustice IN this de- I
clslon OF the powers Since subject /
people desired liberty, since some Of I
them At least had fought on the al /
hed side aEaint the Hungarians. they
we're entitled TO It. but II one looks at \
the map for a Monochrome still sees /
that a death sentence 10 the proud I
people who had for hundreds OF wears
dominated the country between the
Brave and the Carpathlans. and con-
other races as intruders. was thus
pronounced
Surrender to BoIsherists.
Immediately after the colIapze OF
Austria the southern Slavs occupied
western Banat. and IN general the
Inc OF the brave river. thus cutting
III a quarter OF Hungary. At first
ne Runanians occupied only half oil
Pennsylvania. while the S1ovaIzsi
promptly seized the mountain REGIONS
between the crest OF the Carnathiansi
ma the Hungarian plain. Then the
Rumanians persuaded the allies TO
permit them TO advance and occunv
all the Hungarian re-
ZION Inhabited by the Rounaufaus
md an ultimatum demanding Hunra-I
ian retirement IN conformity with
his situation was served unon Hun
-ary- IN the presence OF this demand
Aarolyi RESIGNED and turned the cOun-
~ over to the bolshevIsts.
Actually the situation was this No
government could live In Hungary
Ehich agreed TO the uldmatum or in
Heated willingness TO accent a
reaty OF peace based on such an milf
tum- That orderly government
Mon had existed. namely the Earolvi
-oNP nmenr- threw uD its hands I
There was no revolution coming from
,eloW: there was a deliberate surren-
Ter at the top to the bolshevfFts. |
confronted with something annrovf-
mating death sentence the orderly
government resigned
BOlshevism Dr. Nothing.
Obviously the Hungarian govern
nent mad two things in mind. First.
Z could hope that bolsh evism. invited
.fflcially, might be restrained within
limits. and. second. Il must hone that
ne allies terrified by the new con
uest OF belshevism. would concede
'etter terms to Hungary. In any
vent, the government cave ", n
hungary and invited the bolshevists
n as a last hope Of preserving ma
ional supremacy IN the old national
omains.
We have. then, something that nec-
ssarlly compels looking backward
nd forward Looking backward. one
erceives that what the HunrarfansI
ID last week was 20 follow the prece-
ent OF Brest-Litovsl1, where Leufn
nd Trotzky. unable to resist the Ger
ian demands. refused to agree TO
hem and left Germany to enforce up
n the body OF Russia what she couId
OF acquire with the consent Of thel
ussian viii We know now that
rest-Litovsk was the greatest blum
er that GERMANY MADE we 49,
oW that in the end bOlshevism came
Berlin, the kaiser did not 70 to
etrograd-
Now the Hungarians have simplv
the Brest-Litovsk example.
o. this time in the service OF bolshe-
sm, Of economic class welfare Of
lmmunism. but IN the interests or
In the interests OF theI
agar race. and this Is precisely
hat we may expect the Germans 10
, when the treaty OF peace IS final
e sttll formulating in Paris is final
completed and they are asked forI
.eir signature.-Copyrigh 1918. bvI
cClure Newspaper Syndicate.
RMY AND NAVY 70 RESUME
DIRECT FLOUR PURCHASES
New York. April 5.-The war and
IVY departments and the marine
rps are about to resume direct pur-
Eases Of flour. which have been
.noied during the war by the food