The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-08
HUNGARY
is ACCUSED
AT GENEVA
Benes Cites Conspiracy
For RedivisiOn of
European States
NAZIS BEHIND PLOT
Clashes Occur on Border
Of Jugoslavia
and Hungary

GENEVA. Dec. war clouds,
ready to burst at any moment,
hung over Europe today as DR..
Edouard Benes, foreign minister Of
Czechoslovakia. charged that Hum
gary was resorting to terrorist
crimes such as the assassination Of
the Jugoslavian king Alexander at
Marseilles in a move to wreck post
war treaties by precipitating a new
armed conflict.
IF the case now before the Coun-
Gil (of the League of Nations had
happened before the war and be-
fore the League existed" he de-
clared, war between the two states
concerned would have been today a
sad reality.
IF any future attempt is made 10
imperil the unity of Jugoslavia,
Czechoslovakia and Rumania." ne
added, "the same catastrophe in
evitably would be provoked"
Border Provocations
The bitter discussion and open
threats of war at the League of
Nations Council followed a series OF
( border incidents on the frontiers Of
Jugoslavia and Hungary, with the
deportation of thousands of Hun
garian citizens from Jugoslavia.
While not openly stated at the
League of Nations Council meeting,
in order not to charge the atmos-
phere still further. the terroristic
acts countenanced by the Hungar-
ian government were plotted under
the direction of the Nazis in Ger
many, who, together with Hungary,
are seeking to plunge Europe into
new world slaughter to change
boundary lines
Charges War Conspiracy
What happened in Marseilles,"
Benes declared, was only one as
pect of a conspiracy organized
against the territorial integrity Of
the Danubian states established
under the peace treaties" He in
timated that the assassination Of
King Alexander follows the sim
liar murder of the fascist dictator
Dollfuss Of Austria by German
Nazis.
THE forces which permitted the
organization of bands of terrorists
like those at Janka Puszta Hun
gary, where they were armed with
German arms and machine guns
-Editorl are forces interested in
hindering the historical develop
ments of an entire section of Eu-
rope. They have as their final goal
the separation of Croatia from
Jugoslavia, and the separation Of
Slovakia from CzechoSlovakia.'
Armies Modified
With open war talk seething
throughout Europe, the capitalist
powers are massing their armies for
imminent action. Not only the Hun
garian army Is massing for war, but
citizens along the border are being
armed by the government. The
Hungarian newspapers, financed in
many instances by the Nazis, are
whipping up war hysteria over the
wholesale deportation of Hungarian
citizens from Jugoslavia
Near Szeged, Hungary, group OF
Serbian soldiers of the Jugoslavian
army was reported to have crossed
the border and challenged the Hun
garian guards to battle.
DR.. Benes in his League of Nations
speech declared that the Soviet
Union had enter~l into security
pacts with the Little Entente tre-
ferring to the Eastern Locarno pac0
defining an aggressor nation as one
which supported armed bands or
protected armed bands for the pur-
pose of invading the territory Of
another nation, as well as nation
whose own army crossed the border
of another nation.
Hungarians Deny Completely
The Hungarian delegates at the
League of Nations denied that their
government had any part in the
plot to assassinate King Alexander,
blaming Croatians in Youngstown,
Ohio, with originating the idea.
This merely emphasized the weak
defense OF the Nazi-backed Hun
garian delegates in answer to the
charges of their completely in the
murder of King Alexander,
| In Belgrade it was officially adj
mitted that of total of $1,000
Hungarian residents, 2,7l7 have all
ready been deported.
Following the debate before the
League Council on the tense Hun-
garian- Jugoslavian situation, Capt.
Anthony Eden of Britain and the
French Foreign minister, Pierre
Laval. conferred on the methods Of
preventing aggression in the presents
conflict