Word: bela
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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When a man sprays himself with the perfume of wood violets and puts on a brilliant cravat he becomes the object of scorn. Such a man is the notorious, fat, spider-like Bela Kun. For 143 days during 1919 he was the atrociously cruel Communist Dictator of Hungary. Today he is mortally hated and feared by the whole Hungarian people and suspected of plotting to overthrow the present reactionary Hungarian Government and the conservative Government of Austria...
Graven and seered upon Hungarian souls are bitter memories of the "Red Terror" to which all Hungary was subjected for 143 days, in 1919, during the Communist regime of the notorious, fat, spiderlike Bela...
With these facts in mind one may visualize the furore which stirred Budapest, last week, when it became known that Bela Kun had been found lurking in Vienna, only 140 miles distant, and arrested by the Austrian police. Among his effects were found documents and pamphlets suggesting that he was again being employed by the Third International of Moscow to foment Communist uprisings in Hungary. When arrested Propagandist Kun was found to have put on weight and grown a mustache; but he was dressed characteristically in the height of fashion and reeked of his favorite perfume, wood violet...
When Prime Minister Count Stephen Bethlen of Hungary heard that Bela Kun was under lock & key in Vienna, he formally demanded his extradition into Hungary to face charges of having ordered the execution of 144 Hungarians during the 143 days of "Red Terror." Meanwhile, at Vienna, Russian Soviet Agents were said to be offering fat contracts to Austrian industry as an inducement to persuade the Austrian Government to "deport" Bela Kun back to Russia...
...wrote a series of articles attacking Count Stephen Bethlen, then as now the reactionary Prime Minister of Hungary, but at that time grappling desperately to establish his government. Count Bethlen's was a "White Terror" as opposed to the previous "Red Terror" of Hungarian Communists under the notorious Bela...