Evening star., 1947-06-11
Hungarian Putsch Brozen
As Any Hitler Ever Pulled
Communism Has Failed Utterly to
Win European Revolution
Bv Dorothy Thompson


By Dorothy Thompson
How well the Hungarian conspiracy was
organized Is indicated by things other than the
vulgar chortling Of Mr.. Rakosi-n that Is his
name which IL doubtful since Comintern
agents usually operate under pseudonyms.
The government that was ousted by as
brazen putsch as ever was pulled on-had
just negotiated credit in London, and Buda-
pest businessmen were in correspondence with
old American clients in an effort to re-establish
relationships.
Now, tens Of thousands of Hungarians are
attempting to fee into Austria, rs people al
ways flee from Bolshevisnl, but between them
and any conceivably friendly hosts is the Rus
sian zone Of Austria from which they are
pushed back. Communist speakers in Hungar-
Ian streets are haranguing crowds, not in praise
OF Communist revolution but in attacks on the
Western Powers,
The putsch Is as horrible as was Hitler's
,breakthrough. And 1t Is far more dangerous,
because more successful, than Hitler's prewAr
moves that got him only Austria and C2echo-
slovakia.
Csechoslovakia Next
Czechoslovakia will now be pushed upon by
Hungarian Communists, hostile slovaks and
German Communists The eastern bloc is NOV
ing faster than most people dreamed could hap
pen. President Truman says 1t is an outrage
and that he will take neutrality-suspicious. bring
the case before the United Nations But, In
Communist theory possession is ten n-tenths OF
the Law. It is not the first cold -blooded break
ing of the Yalta Agreement. There was Poland.
The economic situation of Europe will be
disastrously affected-and 1t is an odd time in
deed to raise the sugar ration here, the country
which is taking 10 per cent of surplus sugar!
The countries falling to Stalins plot are
Europes bread and sugar basket and as Secre-
tary Marshall said at Cambridge the division
Of labor is shattered Presuming Eastern Europe
has agricultural surpluses under the Bolshevist
regimes, which will be doubtful-for Conn
munism does not enhance production but
stiles it-those surpluses will be used for
political barter.
The first thing to realize is that what Is left
of Europe will not be saved by our present for
eign policy. Secretary Marshall says the gov
ernments Of Europe must get together and
plan. but admonition will not be enough. The
governments themselves are, to large extent,
hamstrung by internal Communist opposition
and are operating by unstable majorities. The
anti Communist parties everywhere are divided
and handicapped by lack of funds, in compari-
son to the Communists who command unlim-
tied resources.
What Situation Demands.
The situation demands great new European
party international as Communism is-of
revolutionary elan, social, deeply rooted in the
people, and grounded In Christian principles.
This combination Is the essence Of the creative
European spirit, and decisively and exclusively
backed by the United States and Great Britain.
It also demands that We send an economic
planning and purchasing mission to Europe,
composed neither OF diplomats nor bureaucrats
but Of able men Of practical business and imam
cial experience in Europe who know how to
move goods. We must know what each country
needs and in what priority, and what each
country has to sell or barter for other things
A planned European economy Is essential but,
for the time being, only an outside broker can
bring 1t about, and that must be an American
role.
The advantage on our side, II we act With
great imagination, Is that communism has
failed utterly to win the European revolution.
It has nothing with which to mobilize Gre
ative, new European forces 1t must depend
on wretched stooges Moscow trained in the
technique of the coup detat" bureaucrats and
putschists, not leaders Of revolutions. Com
munism cannot organize Europe; 1t can only
disintegrate and destroy 1t. Thus what faces
western civilization Is not rebirth but destruc-
ton, and not by war but by social disintegra-
tion.
1t is very late, but 1t will never be earlier
for us to set out to give aid and direction to
the true great European revolution predicted
by Victor Hugo The revolution for civilization.
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