Evening star., 1923-02-11
WORLD REVOLUTION
SCARE DISAPPEARS
81
Threatened Uprising Sudden
Iy CoIIapses as Europe
TrembIes With Fear.
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OUTBREAKS SUPPRESSED
Red" Groups Quickly Defeated in
Germany, Italy and
Hungary.
OUTBREAKS SUPPRESSED
BY GRANT GORDON.
6y Gable to The Star.

6y Gable to The Star.
FARlS. February Io.-Lost q xo,,s
revolution. Three wears ~.
i' was at the gate OF Europe. II
disappeared. Today there is
so"fceiy trace OF it to be found
ahS"nere Who killed it, or STOLE g.
spirited 1t away? Is it gone for.
ever or will it come back
it IS almost incredible thar . tbir
Nhich bulked SO big and near a,d
ihenacing could have So u,,a.I..
ecilpsed itself in SO short q sn.ca -.
'.." ohiy hree years ago, hundred
thousands of people in Eurona
we're praying and cheering for !,
other hundreds of thousands w.
uehting it. without great annarerr
success. Literally millions wer. $,
dread of it.
Revolution Disappears.
feople took their money out os
banks and hid it in places thew bon.d
were safe. They sold their house.
aiI anu pianos and other bulky posses-
ioUns' in,,r.s' ana bought diamonds and plat
tu lnuul ana rare postage stamps and
olher Things that could be TRANSPORT
eo readily, or even concealed on tba
person In case of search And now
one revolution is gone and people
pened to it?
On May |, 1920, the French confeo-
Grafton of labor called a general
strike. People said Its the revoiu-
tion. There was nearly panic for
a rev days. Troops marched through
the streets of the cities, staging pa
rades TO restore confidence
Germany, everybody said. was a
tinder-box. Bolshevism might arrive.
any day. The Kappists did arrive,
and were defeated by a general strike
called by the government. People said
that Frankenstein government has
called into being something that IS
stronger than itself" But it turned
out otherwise.
Italy's revolutionists seized the
factories and held them for a weei;.
They ran them. and produced ma
chimes and motor cars without the
something appened-nobody has
ever been quite sure what. And two
years later the country was in the
hands of the superpatriotic fascist
Long List of Failures.
Something has happened in every
country In Europe to make IL seem
unhealthy for revolution. Is il that
conditions generally have become
more stable, and the causes of unrest
The opposite rather would seem to
be the case so far as most OF the
continent is concerned.
Is it that the Moscow experiment
has shown conclusiveIy the failure OF
communism? This might be a tempt
ing hypothesis-except that history
affords no examples Of revolutions
founded on reason. Revolutions are
not made, apparently: they just hap
pen. Karl Marx said they would
happen in countries where capitalism
had been developed to the highest de-
gree. Russia disproved him. Nobody
else has advanced a theory that fits
all the facts.
Nobody. either, seems to have ex-
planned clearly and understandably
why the communist revolution in
Hungary failed. Bella Kun was
dictator for a time. Suddenly his
regime collapsed. His communist
brethren in Moscow said it was be-
cause he did not use the terror.
And there was a near-communist
regime in Munich just three years
ago; today Munich is the center of
pan-German plotting. What hap
pened?
All these movements are detached,
and yet possibly there are certain
features common to them all. Pos
sibly the same explanation will hold
good, in part, for all of them. Pos
sibly not.
Anyhow. there's a book that might
be written: What happened TO the
world revolution?
(Copyright 1922