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...London, last week, one of the strangest of living politicians, Count Michael Karolyi, Tolstoyan, Socialist and Hungarian nobleman, was closely noting his country's confused and frantic efforts to break with Germany...
Well might Karolyi wonder. For he had played no small part in Hungary's present plight. After World War I, he had become Hungary's premier and first president. He began by giving away his estates (value: $15,000,000). He ended by giving away his Government...
...clock, one night in 1919, a messenger came to the jail where Karolyi had imprisoned Communist Bela Kun. In his cell, Kun was informed that Karolyi had quit, that Kun was free to set up a soviet republic in Hungary. Said Bela Kun later: "All night I could not get it out of my head-es ging zu glatt, es ging zu glatt-it went too smoothly." The 133-day Red Terror that followed gave Hungarians a psychic shock which laid them wide open to the blandishments of Germany...
...Majority Socialists served the Kaiser with an ultimatum to abdicate; revolution spread to Frankfort, Cologne, Diisseldorf, Leipzig, Stuttgart, Madgeburg, Brunswick; the rulers of Brunswick, Bavaria, Mecklenburg-Schwerin, abdicated; the Kaiser fled; the German Republic was proclaimed; Croatian independence was proclaimed in Zagreb; a revolt in Budapest put liberal Count Karolyi in power...
...former Russian Empire, but everywhere social experimentation-good or bad, radical or reactionary-was in the air. It was administered by politicians of a new type-professors like Masaryk, artists like Paderewski, literary figures like Kurt Eisner or D'Annunzio, trade unionists like Ebert, visionaries like Karolyi, soldiers like Pilsudski-and as they consolidated their power or went under, they fitted into a Europe in which the demand for peace dominated everything else...