The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-08-24
PREMIER vEkiZeLO OF GREECE

presence of a fait accompli. 1t Is
obliged with n wry face to submit to
the disobedience of behests that it was
powerless to enforce, and by thus OPP
posing In vain a course which has re-
ceived wellnigh universal approval
has impaired its prestige, consequently
its power for good and evil, and has
encouraged the nations of the world
to resist what the italian Foreign
Minister. Senator Tittoni, justly de-
nounces as its pretensions to inter-
vene in and to direct the affairs of
every country in Europe regardless of
their rights to self-determination and
Of their sovereignty.
Rumania met with little or no re-
sistance when she marched through
Hungary and occupied Bucharest. She
was hailed by the people as a deliverer
and her arrival in the ancient Magyar
capital. which has been so often &C.
, cupied by foreign Powers, was followed
by the establishment OF a provisional
Hungarian Government under the die
tatorate of Archduke Joseph in the
| place of the Bolshevik regime of Bella
Kun. The Archduke owed his eleva-
ton to his office to a popular move
ment on the part of the peasantry,
! the bourgeoisie and the aristocracy OF
Hungary, especially by the agricul-
/ tural classes upon whom the remainder
OF the nation Is dependent for food.
| Prepared Way for Archduke.
Rumania had nothing to do with
IaI. Ill
preme power beyond wiping the Boil
shevik Government out of existence
and thus preparing the way. But she
naturally appreciated the advantage
of being able to treat with a duly es-
tablished de facto national Govern
ment instead of having to create one
On the withdrawal of the Rumanians
from Hungary Archduke Joseph will
remain in power. True he is opposed
by the Socialist minority. But the
Socialists, who are in the minority
have shown no capacity for Govern
ment and, moreover, he has the back
ing and support of the masses of the
Hungarian people.
OF course, Joseph--in Hungary
every one calls him "Joska"-is han
dicapped by the fact that he is a scion
OF the Inflated Austrian dynasty OF
Hapsburg. But he. like his father and
his grandfather before him. has al
ways made his home in Hungary. OF
which he, like them, is a native. His
branch OF the House Of Hapsburg al
ways has been looked upon by the re-
malnder of the family and by the
Cisleithan portion of what was for
merly the Dual Empire as wholly
Magyar, and as having very little ir
common with the parent stem of the
dynasty or with Austria.
In fact, 1t is necessary to go bach
to the great Empress Maria Theresa.
son, Emperor Leopold H.. who dice
in 1872 and who was the great grand
father of Archduke Joska, in order Il
establish his relationship to the res
of the family. In one word, the so
called Magyar Hapsburgs have beer
Hungarians by birth, residence and b!
national tastes, sympathies, prejudice
and interests for over hundred year
and never have been regarded witt
any degree of sympathy at Vienna
where they were looked upon as
class apart and where their popular
ity aroused jealousy and fears of thei
elevation to the throne of a who'll!
separate and Independent kingdom o
Hungary.
Commanded on Russian Front.
Archduke Joska commanded tn
Austrian troops on the Russian from
tier until Berlin, through pressure eX
ercised at Vienna, caused his super
5 session by the Prussian Field Marsha
] Won Mackensen. Despite the bruta
I and insolent character OF Mackensel
4 and of the German members Of hi
staff toward all Magyar military an
Q civil dignitaries. Archduke Joska con
\ tinued TO serve at the front in sub
ordinate position moved thereto by
patriotic determination to fulfil hi
. duty as a soldier in the field no matte
5 at what cost to his personal feelings.
When the Imperial and Royal Gov
eminent was overthrow and repub