Evening star., 1939-02-03

| jobs. Since most of the economic
| life is in the hands of Jews, the
Aryans have little chance of getting
work after they graduate. In the
law practice and in medicine there
is a similar situation. An over
whelming percentage Of Jews are
engaged in these liberal professions.
The established men take as as
sistants mostly people of their own
race.
The Nazi movement, based on
anti-Semitism and linked with the
land reform programme divide the
lands which are in the hands of the
magnates-is making great strides.
The 1mredy government was afraid
lest a Nazi coup take place in Hun
gary. Such a coup would have ir-
remediably put an end to the coun-
try'S independence. 1t would have
become second Austria. In order
to cut this propaganda short, anti
Jewish laws had to be applied. AS it
is. Germany is spending a good deal
of money to strengthen Naziism in
this country. Every month a num-
ber of army officers, teachers and
government officials have to be dis
missed because they are discovered
to be Berlin's underground men.
AS the vast percentage of the
country is anti-Jewish-for economic
reasons-Imredy thought it wise to
adopt in Hungarian form the laws
and DEGREES which have been en-
forced in the Reich for several years.
He hopes thus to save his neck and
whatever is left of Hungary's inde-
pendence. He admits, privately of
course. that expulsion OF the Jews
from the country's economic life will
create serious difficulties.
Hungary Long FeudaI.
Hungary for generations has been
a feudal country. The nobility, which
owns six million out of the fifteen
million acres of tillable land, con-
sidered business degrading occu-
patton. A nobleman should be a
land owner, diplomat or an army
officer. Any other employment was
beneath his dignity. Even in the
running Of the huge estates, the
financial end of it was entrusted to
the family Jew" Yet it would be
wrong to scof at these feudal land
lords, light headed as they frequently
were.
Although at the present moment
they are burdened with heavy debts,
they have given up using tractors on
their farm and put them all in the
sheds in order to give more employ
ment to the Hungarian peasants. But
of business sense they have none.
1t was natural that under the cir
cumstances the big and lucrative
business should pass into the hands
of Jews.
The middle classes followed the
example Of the nobility and entered
the civil service or accepted any
other kind of employment which was
not directly connected with sordid
money transactions. And thus the
Jews came to play a preponderant
role in Hungarys business life.
The plans of the Germans to rid
this country of all her Jewry has
Machiavelian touch. Some 450,000
Germans have lived here for several
generations. These rank next below
the Jews in business sense. They
have pro-German leanings and are
expected, with the able assistance
of Berlin, to step into the positions
which will shortly be abandoned by
the Jews. Thus Hungary's economic
life will be in the hands of these Ger
mans who are known under the
name of Swabs
Berlin will thus obtain without
further trouble complete control
over Hungary's economic life. Po-
litically the Hungarians are now in
the German net.
When the banks, the industries
and the rest of the business in this
country is controlled by Hungarian
Germans with strong leanings to-
ward Berlin, there will be little left
of independent Hungary. And that
is bound to happen unless world
events change Hitlers course.