Evening star., 1923-09-28
Can Europe Hold Together?
H-Hungary and Horthy
ny JOHN r. SINCLAIR

I'm my former capacity as an Of
ficer of the navy. l have visited every
great country, excepting your own.
have studied peoples and their his
! tory. The Hungarian people are the
finest-the flower of the human race
We celebrated the thousandth ami
versary of our existence as a people
prime minister, Count Tisca, opposed
1t. But we were forced in. We lost
The treaty of Trianon tore us into
five parts. Never in all history has
a great people been so humiliated d
and disgraced. Never. But nobody,
MI Sinclair. can put nature on it's
head. The politicians of Europe have
tried it since the war and they have
failed. The Hungarian people will
be reunited some day"
Admiral Nicholas Won Horthy, as
he spoke, was seated at his big fat
top desk in his magnificent office in
the kings palace at Budapest. A
man of fifty-six, he has one of the
most attractive personalities in Eu-
rope. Tall, broadshouldeed, dark :
complexioned, with a high forehead
backed up by a mass of iron gray
hair, and wearing the uniform OF
the Austrian admiral, he looks the
part he plays. His square jaw shows
determination, while his large nose
shows social qualities of a high or
der. He was courteous, affable and
direct. He speaks excellent English
and looks and acts more like an Ameri-
can or Canadian business man than
the dictator of Hungary.
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Hungary entered the war with
25,000,000 people living in an area of
/ l25,G00 square miles-about the size
in area OF the states of Ohio, Indiana
and Kentucky combined.
The treaty of Triannon reduced her
to $4,000 people living in 35,60O
square miles-in area a little smaller
than Indiana.
Hungary now is fiat plain coun-
try of southeastern Europe, with in
sufficient wood and coal. no water
power and few raw materials.
The Hungarian people are a hardy
loving. The great Kossuth. the pa
trlot, was a Hungarian. The lib
eral Unitarian religion came from
Hungary. A statue of George Wash
ington adorns one of the principal
squares of Budapest. This city Of
handsomest in all Europe.
When the breakup of the old Aus
tro- Hungarian empire came-October
81, 191S-a revolution began the
movement for republic. King
Charles abdicated a few days later
and Count Karolyn was pro-
claimed provisional president. Disor-
der followed and bolshevist govern
ment headed by Bella Kuhn was set
up March 22s 1919. 1t, too. was swept
away. with the help of the Ru-
manians, just 122 days later. A ma
tional government was re-estab-
lished. Elections were held in Jan
uary and February. 1920. The con
servatives won. Admiral Horthy was
appointed regent protector of the
Magyar republic" But on March %,
; 1920, the government declared Hun
gary a monarchy. Since then the iron
! hand of Horthy has been in complete
control of every activity of Hun
garian life. King Charles made two
unsuccessful attempts to regain the
throne. Liberty of speech, free as
, semblage and press have been sus-
pended. Newspapers have been con-
fiscated. Parliaments have been dis
missed. Militarism holds absolute
sway. Budapest is swarming with
well dressed military officers.
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Now, let's look at Hungary a little
more critically:
Unlike Belgium, she had few invest
ments before the war outside of the
old dual monarchy Each year she
purchased a little more outside OF
Hungary than she sold. Her princi-
pal imports were cotton. iron, ma
chinery, leather and chemicals. while
she exported grains, food and some