The Washington times., 1934-03-05
HUNGARY CHIEF
FINDS PEACE
ASSURED
Authority Needed, He Says, So
That Powers Can Use Threats
Against TroubIemakers


regent was an active admiral. In
the second anteroom a group of
officers in the violet jackets of
the cavalry form the last line Of
defense.
Plainly Dressed
The regent himself is more sim
ply clad than any Of his aides save
the naval officer. The regent
wears the plain blue uniform OF
an admiral. A single white deco
ration is on his jacket.
He Is hearty, friendly, open
frank, hard. He put down the
reds with q hand so strong that
the third international lists him
Communist enemy number one.
He looks it.
But he looks above all the
naval officer.
Postwar Hungary has no sea
coast and not boat to its name
but its ruler still Smacks of the
sea. His cabinet is plain as a
captin's cabin.
He is not afraid to talk. He
talks slow but good English. "To
put it shortly" He fired back at
my opening:
No War at ALI
Last year I was certain there
would be war this year. Now
/ think there will be no war
ut all.
"The grave danger was Of the
00caIled preventive war. OF
course it would have prevented
nothing, and would only have
brought about in the end the
same disaster that would over
take Europe after any war
whether you call it preventive
or not.
This idea Of preventive war
Is one of the oldest in history.
From time immemOrial when
ever anybody wanted to make
war he always did it saying it
was in order to preserve the
peace.
$50 the idea Of preventive
war is not new. Yet in the
Europe Of today . preventive
war would be the most catas-
trOphic mistake. 1t would be as
disastrous for the people who
started it as for the people
against whom it was directed,
But it seems now virtually
certain that wiser cOunsels have
prevailed. After all, in order to
carry out war, it is necessary
a. any rate to believe, to have
. certain conviction that you
are going to win. Now who to-
day could 60 to war against
anybody else and say positively
we will surely win?
Who To Risk It?
"What combination of powers
Is so sure Of the internal
strength of each member, and
of the fidelity of its allies, that
1t could afford to provoke q
conflict with any other power
or group of powers? 1t is a
risk no responsible statesman
could take, and 1 think it is a
risk that no responsible mill
tary leader in Europe today
would take.
If the great powers were to
bring "the proper pressure" to
bear on Czechoslovakia, Hungary
feels her claim might be satisfied
without war. The Regent went on:
What we need in Europe
though is more authority. Au.
thority is absolutely essential to
the preservation of peace, be-
cause when moments of strain
come, and great decisions have
to be made you need your power
concentrated. / agree with Mus.
SOlini that fundamental changes
in the organization of Europe
are eSSential-eSSential for the
preservation of the peace.
"The reorganization must be
along lines that will permit the
great powers to get together
and say to any trOubIe-maker:
You must behave; you must
cease to do this or you must do
that
II do not mean a League
army. That Is net necessary,
1t would suffice if the great
powers merely used their own
forces as a threat. With such
authority behind anybody 1 am
confident that order would be
restored in Europe in one day.
But the reorganization must
be thorough, and the injuStices
must be corrected. / cite the
case Of my own country. The
situation in which we are today
is absolutely intOlerable. No
civilized people could expect that
we should tolerate it, and 1 am
happy to note that the ap-
probation for Hungary'S posi-
tiOn is growing in England and
in other countries. They recOg.
niZe not only the material in.
justice done to us, but above all
the moral humiliation which il
hardest to bear"
(Tomorrow-Premier GomboeS,
OF Hungary, tells Knickerbocker
nno%ha1s apo~ mill dORfrou ri1,i1jSH.