New-York tribune., 1919-08-03
rBeIa Kun Regime
Dates From March
appeal by Clemenceau
and Allies Paced Way
for Souiet Chiefs End

The overturn of the Bella Kun regime
at Budapest has been impending for
some time. The peace conference, as
IT made clear in a recent statement. had
found it impossible to deal with him be
cause OF his failure to keep armistice
agreements. Likewise, it regarded his
hungarian people.
These facts led the peace confer
ence, through Premier Clemenceau, to
issue an appeal on July 26 to the Hun
garian people to substitute new gov
ernment for that of Bella Kun. pointing
out that the lifting of the blockade
economic reconstruction and the grant.
ing OF peace to Hungary could only be
brought about with q government
which represents the Hungarian peo-
pie. and not with one that rests its
authority upon terrorism"
Appeal Brought Results
This appeal was not long in bringing
results: Colonel Cunningham, mem
toned in the dispatches, and other rep
resentatives of the Allies were sought
out IN Vienna by representative Hun
garians, to whom the Allied position
was made clear. Communication with
Budapest was kept up by wire, and
Bella Kun was brought more directly
into the negotiations at late period,
when he travelled from Budapest to
the Austrian border, and met there the
Hungarians who had been consulting
with the Allies in Vienna.
The miliViry situation in Hungary
worked in with the desires of the
Allies in securing Bella Kun's retire
ment, as the attack made by the Red
army on the Rumanians recently, ap-
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cut his way through and get into touch
with the Russian Bolsheviki, resulted
in severe defeat for his Red army.
HIS military prestige shattered when
the Rumanians turned and routed his
forces, hs indicated that all he could
do was to succumb to the inevitable.
Career Was Stormy
Bella Kun's career in political affairs
began in March of this year, when
Count Karolyi threw down the reins of
government in Budapest and power was
taken over by the Soviet government.
in which Kun assumed the post of Min
lister of Foreign Affairs, and Of which
he was the moving spirit and the
virtual head.
His Communist regime in Budapest,
While apparently not conducted along
such drastically repressive lines as
Va ASi''AC al suSo4oS Is 1cpOTteO
to have been held up by methods >ir
many ways similar. 1t was not taken
kindly to by the entire Hungarian peo-
pie, the actual Red regime being de-
clared not to have extended it's scope
over any considerable area outside of
the capital. A counter revolutionary
government indeed was set up at SEE
gedin, with which the Rumanians CO.
operated. Whenever counter revolu.
tionary movement made itself evident
in the capital, however, the dictatorship
dealt with it severely, as was the case
early in July, when, as result of an
abortive uprising, forty youths from
the Budapest Military Academy and
three officers were hanged. Bella Kun
then issued q proclamation declaring:
BLOOD shall flow henceforth if neces-
sary to insure the protection of the
proletariat."
Bella Kun's real name is reported to
be Bella Cohen. Before the war he was
an instructor in the law school of the
Francis Joseph University, at Klausen-
burg, Pennsylvania When the Boil
sheviki overthrew the Kerensky gov
ernment in Russia Bella Kun was
prisoner of war in that country, and
when released got job as secretary to
Lenine. He was picked by Lenine and
Trotzky originally to: organize tho
Spartacide uprising in Germany, but he
went instead to Hungary. The Mag
var Socialists would have nothing to
do with him, so he organized the Com