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Vague rumblings from the Department of State over the admission of Count Michael Karolyi, and assertions that the Department was "abundantly justified" in preventing him from speaking after he got here have distressed American lovers of free speech. These good people do not realize that the Secretary of State is merely exercising a function consecrated to his use by a benevolent Congress. During the war the Secretary was given the power of controlling aliens absolutely whenever "the public safety" should require it. This power has now been made a permanent attribute of the Department of State...
Free democratic institutions, wrought painfully by the founding fathers, must not be jeopardized through the hasty words of an alien. What matter that any remarks of which Count Karolyi might care to unburden himself would be addressed to audiences already poisoned by open-mindedness? The principle is the thing, and the principle states boldly that America must be protected from foreign radicals. Beneficent councilors of state, acting on information secured through foreign agents, ascertain the exact color of the alien's political views, and if those views are a shade too pink, he shall not pass. Who does not shudder...
...appears that he applied in haste for a visa to come to this country because his wife was ill. The consul in England, doubtless wishing "to play safe" and yet to grant the visa without waiting to consult Washington, agreed to grant it summarily if Count Karolyi would avoid public discussion of political matters?and the Count voluntarily pledged himself to silence...
Secretary Hughes denied that the pledge of silence was exacted at the request of the Hungarian Minister to this country, declaring simply that Karolyi "having given his pledge, is expected to keep...
...Count Karolyi is not a communist. Before the end of the War, he was appointed Premier of Hungary by Emperor Charles. He then allowed a Republic to be formed and became, in January, 1919, its first President. He surrounded himself with a group of Radicals, some of whom, a few months later, overthrew him and set up a Communist state under Bela Kun. Count Karolyi then retired from Hungary. When the present reactionary government under Admiral Horthy came into power, his exile was confirmed as a political measure...