The Denver Jewish news. [volume] (Denver, Colo.) 1915-1925, 1921-03-16
Unfortunate Position of
the Jews in Hungary
A MERICAN CORRESPONDENT
THROWS LIGHT ON SITUATION.

Eagle" gives n brief survey of condi-
lions in Hungary in the following ar
ticle, which is dated Budapest Feb
ruary 22nd
Beneath the surface of life in the
new and abbreviated Hungary. sim
mers steadily, breaking occasionally
into beatings and worse, the Jewish
problem, with enough wrong on both
sides to make it n ranking sore.
Official Hungarians insist rather
uncOnvincingly that there have been
no pogroms, while the Jews insist to
the contrary, that they are stiIl being
abused.
Out of the maze of charges and
counter charges and dcnials of both
energies something of the historical
and temperamental background tha,
gives the problem its complexity.
When the Hungarians came into
Europe from Asi,r many centuries ago
they were typically vigorous, migra
tory people whose men made war upon
and plundered other tribes, particular
ly such degenerate" people as had
abandoned the fierce life of hill and
plain and had settled permanently III
agricultural communities and in towns
This was merely one chapter in chll
and flow of age-long conflict between
nomad and valley dweller that has
not yet ended.
Their social structure was military.
Their chief or king kept his leader
ship by making war. The principal
occupation of his sub-chiefs was war. |
and the common men were the soldiers
business, trading. commerce. were be.
meath them. Yet such n tribe had to
he fed and supplied. Therefore. thcr" |
were always with them Il great body
nf camp followers who acted as II
sort OF unofficial service of supply
and selling to the warriors of til.
tribe. These We're Jews.
This was the beginning of the Jew
isli problem. The Hungarian people
could not then have gotten along with
out the Jews. nor can they now. Ye. |
they have always hated these ncces
siry people. They think of them N:
parasites. living by bargaining, trad
ing and cunning upon the superior |
courage and bravery of the warriors. |
In the late war the same story wa,
repeated on modern scale. The Hun
garians acquitted themselves in the
field better than any soldiers of the
Central empires. But well qualified
students of the situation say that they
could not have kept the field without
having behind them the organizing /
genius of the Jews. who manufa acturcd.
sold and delivered the materials with
which the warriors made their bid foi
glory.
When the warriors came home, how
ever. they found that along with keep
ing the army going many Jews had
profitccred upon it. and the old yell
of parasite" was raiseu anew.
1t was perhaps but natural that thu
Jews Of Hungary should have little i
patriotic love for people who de
test them, and that both during tn"
Belu Kun Bolshevist regime and dur
ing the lsoumanian plundering expcdi-
tion afterward they should frequently !
seem to be giving aid and encourage
ncnt to IIungary's enemies.
There is an old song about women:
you can't get along with them OF
without them" That expresses it eX-
actly. Commerce. banking, manu-
featuring. business, the law. medicine,
the things that keep a modern nation
going are dominated by Jews, and as
long as upper class Hungarians insist
on being either gentlemen or sol
diers. they will continue to be so dom
mated Good Hungarians won't de
grade themselves by dabbling in such
mean pursuits. They prefer to hunt,
If in the country, or to wear tight
fitting uniforms of bright colors, witt.
lots of gold braid. and trappings in
cluding long sabers, years out of date.
if in the city.
Neither of these pleasures being pro
Iuctive of much income. and the ac
tivities of the Jews being productive
of big incomes. the Hungarian feels an
amusing and helpless Jealousy.
This is the background of the Jew
ish question in Hungary. If there
have been or will he pogrOms. this is
the situation that leads to them
A. good deal is said here of an or
ganzation of ex-soldiers known as
'the Awakening Magyars,'' which.