Norwich bulletin., 1921-04-15

garian dog The peasants have been little interested in the politics of the capital and the Horthy regime had smooth sailing while cheap food lasted
 Hungary has had a full share of poli-
 tical disturbances and revolutions in
 her history and although the terrible Peasant Rising of 15l4 was sternly
 repressed, the Hungarian peasant has shown his power and liberalism on
 many an occasion. At recent meet 1 ing of the National Agricultural Fede- ration of Hungary, the audience greet ed a reference to monarchical success sion with the cries of Down with the I Hapsburgsi' and Give us republic again.
 Less than one-fourth of the Hun garian people live in cities of more than ten thousand and a strong cur l rent in the flood of American irnigra- 1 tion has been caused by the unwill l ingness of the poverty stricken pea sants to till rich soil and in turn be i oppressed by city dwellers.
 l Although the Hungarian capital is 1 best known as Budapest, the Pesth l quarter of the city is by far the most l important and Old Buda is only a
 small section across the Danube, on
 the Tight bank. The castle is also situated on the same side of the river Q
 fine birds-eye view of the handsome city, with the fine Gothic Parliament Building to the left and St. Stephens s Church, whose dome matches in height the dome of the Parliament Building, the most prominent feature in the
 close picked city beyond the busy Dan- 1 ube.
 "The people of Budapest love pleas
 ure and for miles along the river | haf al fl and old mass on the sands or paddle
 about in graceful canoes. Across from T Pesth rise rounded hills dotted with small villages and summer villas from
 which one has lovely views of the
 teeming city the wide plain and the winding river.
 II "Reactionary as much of the senti- . ment of Budapest is, it has an un- usual number of monuments to Hun
 gary's revolutionary and liberal lead CTS and many of the streets have beer
 named after those whose fame came . I through fighting oppression.
 .1 Roaming the broad plains of Hun. ? gary one could often see picturesque [ shepherds, carrying long slaves ana 2 clad in shaggy sheepskin cloaks. Unti ) the coming of the World War,-thi
 restaurants and pleasure places of thu
 some officers, clad in soft boots, tigh ! l trousers, frogged coats and fowinI
 capes, trimmed with fine fur. These are the two types which arr l now struggling for domination of wha , Hungarian soil has been left them b, . the war. The militaristic bureaucrac, centered in Budapest is highly organi Zed and strongly reactionary. Variou schemes were made, one involving tn
 reinstatement of Charles to the heal l of Che kingdom while another locke, toward a marriage alliance with tn Rumanian ruling family. But the pea = Sants have had enough of monarchica g affairs and desire a more liberal gov l ernment f About two- thirds of the people 0 l Hungary derive their living from agri t i culture, aside from breweries, distil l leries and sugar mills, all of whic : largely depend upon agricultural pro . ducts. There is little industry in Hun
 gary. Most of the fluid capital is i
 cism has been shown frequently sine
 the hands of the Jews and anti -Semiti
 the regency began. The present King
 dom of Hungary is only about one
 | half as large as the former State, al
 | though definite boundaries have not ye
 | tive opaganda in favor of a retur 6 | been determined and there is most ac Q of the former lands. in which the na n tional and racial elements are mue n mixed.
 The Hungarians bitterly resent tn n division of their. former territory an = the most common sights in Budapes V in 1920 were flaming posters picturin ,- the separation of certain lands fro1 " the Magyar domination and bearing tn : words. Mem, nem, soha' (No, nc
 neverD..
 There are no hard and fast raci; : or linguistic boundaries in the regio IS of Hungary and this not only cor .s fuses world politics but makes it har
 for a traveller to tell when he crosse n a political boundary, since many Hur e garian subjects look the same an I wear the same costumes as do peep n of the same racial stock who ca l themselves Czechoslovaks, Rumanian wi or Jugo-Slavs."