Evening star., 1920-06-27
SOCIALIST BOYCOTT
/. FAILS TO DISTURB
PEOPLE|N HUNGARY
Deemed Unjust, as 'Wh'te
Terror" Alleged Cause,
Doesn't Exist.
BY A. II. DECKER.
BY Cable to The Star and Chicago
Daily News Conyrfcht, 1920.

| Da1iy news. SOpyrIEHt, low.
| BUDAPEST, June 26.-When the So
cialist committee at Amsterdam de-
clared boycott against monarchlst
Hungary, beginning June 20, to as
sumo the form of severing communi-
cations with Hungary and 1soIatins
the anti-socialists until the alleged
white terror ceased and Hungarian n
workmen were no longer oppressed
the Hungarians were not alarmed.
Count Apponyi declared it frivolous
Doubtless the communist organizatloI'
will be able temporarily to annoy the
Hungarians, as. for example, cutting
off wire communication with Vienna
No just Basis for Boycott.
That the boycott cannot last long is
certain. as it has no just basis. There
is no white terror in Hungary. True
certain irresponsible officers, whose
families were murdered or who SUI
fered greatly under communism. nave
committed acts of violence against
the Jews. The Hungarian govern
ment opposes these acts and in a re-
markably short time has brought or
der to Hungary from the anarchy
which followed Bella kun's regime OF
destruction.
If the boycott is effective the anti
Semitic feeling in Hungary, which is
now dying out, will be famed anew.
Hungarians know where the boycott
started. - Russian communists sent
20.000.000 Romanoff rubles (S20,00 000,-
00O) to the Hungarian communists,
some of whom took refuge in Vienna,
where Bella Kun and his associates
still hope some day to return to Bud
apest on the crest of a new COM
muniSt movement.
Bella Kuns aid. Julits Alpari, en-
gineered the boycott through the
Amsterdam committee of the inter-
national factions in the neighborlng
states which take delight in aiding
any movement which will hinder the
recovery of their Hungarian enemy.
Perhaps even the Friedrich party in
Budapest would like to see a change
which would return it to power.
World Needs Hungary's Crops.
The boycott cannot be effective be-
cause the world needs Hungary more
than Hungary needs the world Hun
gary is harvesting bumper crops of
wheat and corn, which the world
might buy. The entente will not
supply Austria with overseas wheat
forever when tonnage can be saved
by purchasing at her door. 1t is
regarded as ridiculous to believe that
lust on the part of a few communists
to retake power will influence the
world to uphold the boycott.
While the Amsterdam plot is a
farce, Hungary is suffering from an
other blockade. which is far from
being farce. The entire frontier
of Jugoslavia, Rumania and Czecho-
slovakia is closed Theoretically and
only the Austrian frontier is open
Though there is direct railroad con-
nection with Trieste, goods from that
port and Genoa must be hauled over
heavy grades by way of Vienna on
account of the Jugoslav blockade.
The CZechs cannot use the wood from
the Carpathians. but they prevent
RATS from descending the rivers into
Hungary. There is salt few kilo-
meters across the Rumanian border,
but Hungary uses Japanese salt COM
ing by way of Hambu Thousands
of Carpathian mountaineers used to
descend to the plains at harvest time
but now the harvests spoil because
of the lack of hands.
Hungarians will not miss the
small loss from a childish boycott,
but they are waiting anxiouslys for
the time when economic conditions
will assert themselves and their
neighbors will make the agreements
necessary to the lifting of the block
ade.