The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-06-30
count APPONYE'S
FAITH IN HUNGARY
Veteran Sure 1t Viii
Emerge from Cataclysm
r<~. of War
POINTS TO GROWTH
~ OF LAST so YEARS
Jews PrOfited BY Inability of Federal
bureaus TO Develop Trade-Two
Thirds of COuntry's Territory and Al
Woodland Lost BY War.

1 A~C'A
BUDAPEST, June 30-'I worked
for Hungary's prosperity during my
half-centennial political career. / sui,
fered with my people when the war and
the final catastrophe crushed us and now
L rejoice 10 see the nation rising nobly
again" said Count Albert Apponyi to
The Associated Press correspondent in
the garden of his quaint old palace on
the Buda Hill overlooking the Danube
and the city, bathed in the golden rays
of the early morning sun. .
Count Apponyi recently celebrated his
10th birthday anniversary and the spe-
| cial session of the national assembly, the
gala performance at the opera house
the numerous banquets which were held
in honor of the grand old man. gave
expression to the esteem in which he is
held by the AIagyars.
You ask me to look backward and
sum up my experiences of the last 30
years = unused Count AppOnyi, strok-
ing his long patriarchal beard. Well,
look here"-and he pointed to the Dan
ube and the city-'when 50 years ago
L looked down from this same spot, /
saw a lonesome river and one solitary
bridge over it built by an EngliShman
from purely British-made material. Ex-
cept for a handful of one-Storied houses
only dunghills extended along the banks
Now look. Six new bridges-home-
made to the last nail-are thrown across
river loud with the traffic of steamboats,
You see the dark outlines of our Gothic
parliament and the long rows of noble
mansions. you hear the distant droning
sounds. the buStling toll of a million in
habitants. Here you have our history
of the last century, which can boast of
a marvellous economic, technical, cultur-
al progress of almost American proper
tiOns.
But, alas, my pleasant recollections
are ObScured by pictures of a glOomier
hue. The bulk of the nation. the gem
try and landed middle-class could not
keep abreast. of the feyerish economic
struggle and consequently fell back.
Chnglng 10 the traditions of a long semi
feudal past, they neglected trade and
commerce and We're ill-ftted for the ex-
lgencles of modern public and intellec-
tual life Their footing thus lost has
since been occupied by the Jews; hence
the expansion of their influence. for
which they can hardly be blamed
Our gigantic struggle during the last
decades has yet another dark side. We
became but lately aware of social life
not merely production and consumption.
but much more a just distribution of
goods produced and that a social legis-
latiOn has to keep watch and eliminate
the bad consequences of free competi-|
tion as well as check the tyranny of the
rich. /. at least have been preaching
and advocating for 80 years a liberal
labor policy and the satisfaction of an
labor claims which are comparable with
efficient production.
The disastrous war and the more
disastrous peace made my flouriShing
country a wreck. We lost two-thirds of
our former territory, our woodland is
altogether gone, most of our mines have
been taken and ruins of former Hum
gary were exposed to the storms of twol
revolutions and a subsequent Rumanian
occupation.
And yet my faith remains mistaken
in Hungary's resurrection. The future
will prove that universal interests will
help Hungary to a higher position than
what was intended to be given to her
by the peace treaty. Hungary viii win.
If not leading. Mt least a strong posi-
ton in Central Europe because none of
the shaky new states will be found equal
10 fulfill the historic function of the
former dual monarchy which consisted
III securing peace, tranquility and inl
spreading western ideas in this part of
the world. Hungary though mutilated
will show herself fit for the task and
will come 10 her own in the long run"