The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1919-04-02

treaty of peace based on such an ulti-
matum. That orderly government
which had existed, namely the Karolyi
government, threw up its hands.
There was no revolution coming from
below; there was deliberate surren-
der at the top to the Bolshevists. Con-
fronted with something approximate
ing death sentence the orderly gov
eminent resigned.
Obviously the Hungarian govern
ment had two things in mind, first it
could nope that Bolshevism, invited
officially, might be restrained within
limits and, second, it must hope that
the allies, terrified by the new con-
quest of Bolshevism. would concede
better terms to Hungary. In any event
the government gave it up in Hungary
and invited the Bolsheyists in as last
hope of preserving national suprema-
cy in the old national domains,
We have, then, something that ne
cessarily compels looking backward
and forward. Looking backward one
perceives that what the Hungarians
did last week was to follow the pre-
cedent of Brest-Litovsk, where Lenine
and Trotsky. unable to resist the Ger
man demands, refused to agree to
them and left Germany to enforce
them On the body of Russia. We
know now that Brest-Litovsk was the
greatest blunder that Germany made.
We knew now that in the end Bolshe
vism came to Berlin, the kaiser did
not go to Petrograd
Hungarians Use Eolshevism.
Now the Hungarians have simply
employed the Brest-Litovsk example
not this time in the service of Bolshe-
vism, of economic class warfare, of
communism, but in the interests of
in the interests of the
Magyar race and this is precisely
what we may expect the Germans to
do when the treaty of peace which
we are still formulating in Paris is
finally completed and they are asked
for their signature.
Before the Budapest revolution we
had certain authentic indications from
Germany that our enemy did not in
tend to sign the treaty of peace we
were making. They were distrusted
here, but they were at least noted
BY contrast now that the Hungarian
episode has occurred one meets the
absolute conviction in Paris that Ger
many, following the Hungarian exam
pie, will decline to sign the treaty of
peace here formulated, and will invite
the allies to carry out their will on
the passive body of Germany, given
over entirely to Bolshevism.
viii the allied powers care to risk
the Bolshevizing of Europe as far as
the Rhine and the Alps to enforce
their terms in Germany, or will they,
in the presence of this new menace.
modify their terms? This is German
strategy; this is the allied predica-
ment.
Bolshevism in Hungary has taken
less aggravated form than it has &C
quired in Russia. Lenine, telephoning
to Bella Kun, the Bolshevist leader in
Budapest, advises him to make the
Bolshevist program less severe in his
country than it had been in Russia. 1t
is taking the form of extreme commu-
nistic legislation, to be sure, but it
has not become that autocratic of as
sassination which prevails in Russia
and it has identified itself with the
national aspirations of the Magyars
rather than with the international
theories of the group of which Lenine
and Trotsky are the conspicuous lead
ers.
Now, as l have said in my dis
patches, the Hungarian revolution
produced panic in Paris. A state of
panic persists. All of a sudden it was
realized by those who were patiently
endeavoring to separate the races of
Europe, to create new Europe out
of the old photographic map, who had
been discussing abstract questions
and theories as if eternity were al
loted to them and no interruption pos
sible, perceive the first forward sweep
of Bolshevism threatening the eco
nomic future of Europe, and second a
new line of policy opening for Ger
many which might and probably would