The American Jewish world. [volume] (Minneapolis ;) 1915-current, 1921-04-22
THE AMERICAN JEWISH WORLD

those Hungarian politicians who were
busy during the war with one or the
other sort Of propaganda had to be
provided with jobs too. The Hungar-
Ian government had already prepared
the population for pogroms and mas
sacres and for legalized Jewish disa-
bilities, both economic and civil.
When the catastrophe came, the Hun
garian government did not need to
make any strenuous efforts to divert
the anger Of the population into anti
semitic channels and to get all the
job seekers both military and civil to
throw themselves on the Jews and
to take away from them their last
farthing. For nearly year, there ex-
listed in Hungary, two governments,
the official government ruling the
Gentle population and the anti-semi-
tic government consisting of land
owners officers, officials and politi-
clans Of the lost provinces whose rule
consisted in taxing" the Jews, in
killing Jews and in holding up Jews.
This government was as sovereign as
the official government and was toll
Grated by the latter. 1t had repre-
sentatives in every city and it was
we'll organized. The officials of this
anti-semitic government would enter
a Jewish house, confiscate everything
and then imprison the head of the
family, would then go to the relatives
of this family and say, Unless you
pay so and so many tens or hundreds
of thousands of kronen, your relative
will be convicted and killed" In this
way they raised hundreds of millions
of kronen from the Jews and have
killed tens of thousands of Jews.
Later on, they organized with the
help of the anti-semitic party, the OBJ
ject of which is to confscate Jewish
wealth, to drive the Jews out OF Hun
gary because they have no use for
paupers and to establish a purely
Christian Hungarian state. The rise
of radicalism in Hungary caused the
anti-semites to conclude sort OF an
alliance with the clericals and both
have combined and have worked out
their sinister program of a Christian
Hungary. The clericals in the neigh
borhood countries like Czecho-Slo-
vakia and Austria, fearing the radi-
Gals, combined with the nationalistic
anti-semites and in due time these
dark forces of all the three countries
have combined in a conspiracy
against the Jews. In Poland, SIM
liar movement developed indepen-
IDENTIFY, but when the anti-semitic
forces in the other central European
countries were we'll organized the
Polish, Hungarian, Czecho-Slovakian,
Austrian and Bavarian anti-semites
concluded regular alliance and it is
this alliance of all the anti-semitic
forces in Central Europe that is con-
vening the international anti-semitic
congress to take place in Vienna in
the middle of summer. But the driv-
ing power of the anti-semitic move
ment in Central Europe is the Hun
garian monarchists and clericals and
it is they who are controlling the
whole movement and not the Poles.
But the general staff of the anti-sem-
itic movement is not located in Hun
gary proper, but in Switzerland and
especially in the east of Switzerland.
There, the leaders of the anti-semitic
movement in Hungary, Austria, Ba-
varia, Czecho-Slovakia meet regularly,
work out their sinister plans and
guide the anti-semitic work. Switzer-
1ond ie todav an E1dOradO of adVon-