Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1921-10-26
COUPOF EX-KING
BACKEDBY ALL
MONARCHISIS
Discredited Title Bearers of
Central Europe Hoped to
! Regain Honors.
EXPECT MORE ATTEMPTS
Special to Indiana Daily Times
and Philadelphia Public Ledger.
By FREDERICK WILLIAM VILE

and Philadelphia Public Ledger.
By FREDERICK WILLIAM VILE.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 26.-"Ex- King
Charles mad attempt to regain the
throne of Hungary was more than
Hapsburg dynastic plot. 1t was a des-
perate thrust, backed by all the discredit
ed Monarchs and MonarchiSts of Europe,
at world democracy"
In those words DR.. Bedrich Stepanek,
Czecho- Slovakian minister to the United
States in a special interview with youI
correspondent depicted what he calls
true inwardness" of the ill-starred Carl
ist adventure. DR.. Stepanek, who is CON-
pleting his first year in Washington, Is
q recognized authority on the turbule MT
affair of Central Europe. Six months Ggo
after the failure of an earlier plot to re-
cover the Magyar throne for Charles,
DR.. Stepanek predicted to Washin gton
officials that the Hydra headed Eaps-
burgs, dethroned and discounted as they
were, would tempt fate again at no dis
tant date. He is convinced this weeks
adventure, though the latest, will not be
the last
ANOTHER WAR
MIGHT HAVE RESULTED.
America is not so remote from the
Hungarian crisis" said DR.. Stepanek,
"as might at first glance seem to be
the case Had Charles crazy scheme
succeeded, another European war would
have been inevita BILE. The three States
comprising the little entente'-Czecho-
slovakia, Roumsnia and Jugo- Slavia-
were already mobilizing, for elementary
dictates Of self preservation require them
to suppress ruthlessly Hapsburg pre-
where such Intervention would end
Might we not have 1914 and its after
math all over again? Would not the
laboriOus restoration and reconstruction
of Europe-the dream of statesmen like
Herbert Hoover-te irretrieYably
wrecked?
I'VE know the Hohenzollerns and the
Hapsburgs are leagued in an eternal
vow to recover their own, some day,
somehow. There are irreconctIable Ro-
manons who would Join them If the
monnrchist cause seemed promising All
three defunct houses have their servltors
at home and abroad ready to take the
arena. Charles ability to muster a host
of 10000 rOyalist troops is an event that
tells its own story. 1t shows that the
life by no means has been crushed out
of the mOnarchial serpent whose frag-
mentary parts are scattered throughout
Europe, watching, waiting, conspiring-
and hoping.
SUCCESS WOULD HAVE
AFFECTED ARMS FARLEY
Charles is typical Ha3sburg IN that
the war and its annihiIatink results for
his once proud realm mean nothing to
Enthusiastically nothing. intellectually
and politically by temperament and fra
dition, he is incapable of approaching
the cyclonic magnitude of events that
have passed over Hapsburg, HohenzoIlern
and Romanoff heads since 1914 That is
why Charles, with his Magyar vassals
attempted his desperate coup d'etat He
chose the hour for eSsayiug II with
characteristcally Hapsburg cynicism-the
eve of the Washington conference for the
Limitation Of ornaments and the stabiIiza-
ton Of world peace For had Buda- 1t
capitulated to the Carnst force and
Charles set himself up as King Of
signal for new era Of miIitarisn in
Europe. Instead Of coming to Washing
ton prepared to effect a curtaflment of
burdensome army establishments. Europe
On powers would have entered upon the
conference al a moment when cataclysmic
conditions at their door required them to
remain armed to the teeth
Inc Hapsburgs, like the HohenzoI-
lerns. look uPOn the American Nation as
the principal architects Of their ruin. in
that 1t was the Intervention OF the United
States that sealed the doom of the CEN
traI powers. 1 am strongly constrained
TO think that Charles shallow Drained
though he be, was melted to strike