The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-08-12
Anarchy Feared in Hunga-
rian Capital Should In
vaders Leave.
BOLsHEvIK MENACE SEEN
Presidents Theories Encounter
Stern Facts, With Disas-
trous Complications.
BY LAURENCE HILLS.
Stdd Correspondent Of TIE Sun

Copyright. 1919. all rights reserved.
PARIS, Aug. 11.-Due presumably to
advices from the White House, a slight
modification has been made in the
American attitude toward the Ruman-
ians. The Americans are not insisting
now that the Rumanians shall evacu-
ate Budapest Immediately, although
still protesting against their acts there.
1t was intimated to-day by members
Of the mission that 1t might not be wise
to order the Rumanians out Of the
city Immediately If this meant turning
the city over to anarchy; yet un-
doubtedly the Rumanian occupation is
in defiance OF the Councils wishes, as
determined by American and British
pressure. Nothing else can be con-
strued from the note published yes
terday, which, 1t must be remembered,
was preceded by another ordering the
! Rumanians to arrest their advance be-
fore they reached the capital.
The Americans now express doubt
whether the Rumanians received the
latter note. though dispatches last
week from Vienna were to the effect
that the note had been delivered by the
Italian representatives and delibSr-
ately ignored by the Rumanians.
Rumanians I'm Temesvar.
Another development this morning
was the occupation by the Rumanians
Of Temesvar, which they have been
claiming. but which was not given to
them. This act therefore appears to
be another defiance Of the Council.
It would seem that the next two days
must clear up two important points:
First, whether the Rumanians really in
tend to act independently of the Council
and redress their wrongs in their own
way, using the law Of might to recover
the Mackensen loot and thereby con-
front the Allies with tremendous issue
concerning their own authority. Second
whether the Allies will recognize the
Archduke Joseph's Government as being
In response to the popular desire and
open negotiations with him.
The whole future of the conference
plainly turns on the answers to these
questions. Whatever modification the
American attitude has undergone is due
apparently to the Wilson theories en-
countering stern facts, for at the bottom
OF this whole situation. with its wide
ramifications, is still the Wilson idea,
indorsed by Lloyd George, that force
shouldn't be employed to effect changes
in Government, even II it be Bolshevik.
Fighting Bolshevik Menace.
Against this element are the people
who. with Bolshevism next door threat
ening their lives, turned and wiped 1t
out after the impotency OF the Wilson
theory had been revealed ard the Ru-
manians' appeal to use force had been
denied by the Council. chiefly as the re-
suit of American opposition. The result
has been violent discussion over the
Wilson policy in Europe, as evidenced
in Hungary and Russia and in the
minorities clauses in the Polish, Ru-
manian and other treatiea
Careful investigation by diplomats
here shows the outcome would be doubt
full II 1t were not for two things: First,
Americas economic weapon, she being
the only credit reservoir in the world !;
and, second. the determination of the
British Government that its interests
lie in standing by America, while at the
same time keeping America involved in
Europe and Asia.
Reports brought to the American mis-
sion to-day by confidential agents leav-
ing Budapest Thursday we're that the
Rumanians deliberately arranged the
coup d'etat, giving orders to the Hun
garian police force to arrest the mem-
bers OF the Government. This ap-
parently precludes any possibility OF
the Americans recognizing the Arch
dukes Government until a plebiscite is
held. The same report told of tremen-
dous looting, despite Rumanian denials
Yet the Americans and British have
no force to supplant the Rumanians.
From views expressed this morning
they do not wish to assume the respon-
sibility for anarchy or the possible re-
turn of Bolshevism should the Ruma-
nian army be withdrawn.