The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-06-09

(This is the First of a Series of In
terviews with Prominent Communists
On International SituatiOn.-Ed nOte.)
Especial to The DAILY WORKER.)
y MOSCOW, U.S.S.R. (By Mail.)-
Bella Kun, head OF the Hungarian
Soviet Republic during its brief and
heroic existence, and one of the most
prominent spokesman of the Com
munist international, declared to me
here:
"The workers of America must not
allow themselves to be fooled on the
present imperialist plans for new
attack on the Soviet Union. They
must be kept awake to the ever
present war danger.
Attack Upon Soviet Union
"Opportunism reveals itself in the
ever-present tendency to under
estimate the danger of the new war
against the Soviet Union. There
must be no underestimation Of this
danger.
Bella Kun showed how Hungary
was being made pawn of Great
Britain and Italy in the new anti
Soviet War plans. British imperial
list schemes against the Soviet Union
win be advanced if London can win
the support and close collaboration
of Washington in the attack on the
Chinese Revolution. Weakening OF
Great Britain in the Orient viii help
blast its plots against the Soviet
Union. A huge anti-war campaign in
the United States must hamstring
Wall Streets ambitions in the Far
East, especially the waging of its war
on the Chinese masses.
Forty arrests were made on this
May Day in Hungary. No May Day
meetings of any kind were permitted
among the peasants. That is the way
the mailed fist of the big bourgeoisie
and the great landholders, who now
dominate the government, show their
power, having taken control from the
petit bourgeois elements that won
power after the overthrow Of the
Soviet Republic, crime against the
Hungarian working class in which
Herbert Hoover, now secretary Of
CONNER in Coolidge's cabinet
played a prominent role, counter
revolutionary role of which the Amer
lean ruling class is proud.
Macdonald Helps Restore Monarchy.
With the help of British capital,
and with J. Ramsay Macdonald, while
"labor" premier, acting as an inter-
mediary for international loans, we
find that the Hungarian terrorist
government of Horthy and Bethlen
has now enjoyed three years without
a deficit. Strenuous efforts are now
being made for the saving of private
capitalist enterprises, says Bella Kun.
AS browning these achievements Of
state and private financing, it is
planned to call back to power a
member of the Hapsburg Family and
restore the monarchy.
These monarchist ambitions of the
Hungarian terror are not relished by
the neighboring states of Czecho-
K Slovakia, Austria, Jugo-Slavia and
tthers, that are also necessary to aid
the 4 British designs against the
Workers Republic. Thus the Haps-
burg Intentions have been held in
leash by5 the International capitalists.
Vet ENGLAND and Italy continually
fight against this opposition of the
little so-called democratic" states of
the Anti-Soviet Block.
Hungary has already signed a
treaty of amity with Italy, Premier
Bethlen having made personal visit
to Rome, the home city Of fascism,
for this purpose.
Attacks Upon Communists.
This development in Hungary, with
the ultra-reaction in the saddle, has
resulted in the most vicious persecu-
ton of Communist and left wing trade
union and farmer elements on the
one hand, and brazen compromise
with the traitor socialists on the
other.
It is estimated that there are 1000
political prisoners in Hungary today,
the outstanding cases being those Of
Soltan Szento, organization secretary
Of the. Communist Party, and Mat
thias Rakosi The latter is now serv-
ing an eight-year prison sentence, but
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