The Denver Jewish news., 1924-07-10
In Hungary Nou
Jcwish Tclegraphlc Agency
by A. Grccnblatt
]. T. A, Representative in Budapest

regime, then followed the White Ter
ror and then the anti.Scmitic sreglmc,
Judaism In Hungary seemed doomed.
Everywhere the Jews were attacked,
were murdered, We're pogromed, and
thousands of Jews fearing for their
lives deserted the ship Of Judaism
they fled like rats because they he
llcycd that the ship which for thous-
aEds of years has brayed the storms
was now going to sink. Thousands of
Jews became baptized. II is impos-
slblc to compute the number of Jews
that left Judaism. 1t was an ava
lanchc.
AT last things are beginning to re-
turn to normal. Slowly, It is true, but
the movement has set init Is no
loIEcr n movement away from Juda
ism; it is a movement back to Judaism.
What were the reasons for the deser
tions? There were all SORTS Of rea-
sons. 1t was disadvantage TO he a
jew. Jews We're not permitted to study
at the universities; Jews We're not al
lowed to engage In certain professions
Jews dared not walk the streets-they
might be murdered suddenly without
warning.
Even baptism was not safeguard.
For baptized Jews. tco,wcre Jews, said
the i-Semities-onCc n jew, always
n Jew. Baptism does not wash out the
Jewishness from the blood.
Now Hungary is settling down. The
terror has been suppressed. Financial
Hungary is in contact with the League
Of Nations, with the great powers, and
the lot of the Jew, too, is improving
The determinations have not been re-
moved, but the Jew is no longer ex-
posed to the fury of the anti-Semitic
murder-ganss.
At the head of the murder, gangs of
Hungary stood the President of the
anti Semitic Party, Deputy Julius
Goembocs. the friend and associate of
the terrorist commandants, Hejjas and
Pronay.
l have spoken only the other day to-
this man, interviewed him for the J. T.
A., on his attitude TO the Jewish ques-
tion.
Time after time, in the National As
sembly, at agitation meetings, he has
stood up and bitterly assailcd the Jews.
He has not failed to make it clear he
is Jew-hater. determined and uncom-
promising But there is something diff
ferent between an interview in cold
blood with journalist and speeches
to wrought-up anti-Semitic crowd or
TO an anti-Semitic House of Parliae-
ment
Here is men who is not a theOrist
in his anti-Semitism, but who has actu-
ally played his part in posromS, melted
to pOgroms and organized them, and
admits frankly that he would like to
do so again.
Race protection" covers all the nom
Jewish nationalities which have for
centuries shared through thick and
thin the fortunes of the Hungarian
people, Those nationalities, however,
like the Jewish, which have acquired
for themselves position of domina-
tion, or aim at such, must he put down.
have in mind, for instance, the Pan
Slavs and the PanGermans.
1T is n mistake to confuse race pro-
lection with ordinary anti-Semitism,'
went ON Deputy GOemboes. THE anti
Scmities cry out against the wrongdo-
ings Of the Jews Wrongdoings must
he put down by the law. Race protcc-
tion is directed rather against the So
called virtues of the Jews. The word
virtue is not used here in AN ethical
sense. / mean by it that the clear-cut
determination which gives the jew an
advantage over the Christian in the
economic sphere. Race protection takes
its stand against this Jewish Imperial
ism.
1--WE do not perSecute the Jews. We
protect our own race. We want our
own people to have the same determin-
alton to get on, to which the Jews owe
their material success. Race protection
is in the first instance an economic
idea, and means that the reconstruc-
ti0n Of Hungarian economic life must
he carried out exclusively for the bene-
fit of the Hungarian race. know that
there are differences among the Jews
| themselves, ! make distinction be
tween the Jews who We're associated
with us in our war of liberation in
| 1913 and who have been bred in Hun
| gariun traditions, and the Jewish immi-
grants who cannot grasp the Hungarian
mentality. 1t is the task of Hungarian
Jcwry itself to deal with this foreign