Hungary -- History -- Revolution, 1918-1919 -- Personal narratives; Tormay, Cécile, 1876-1937 -- Diaries
His disciples and followers hid in despair and left His grave alone—they
had no more hope. But on the third day, very early in the morning,
women went through the blue dawn to His grave. It was women who saw His
resurrection.... The memory of that beautiful, sacred vision must have
remained in their eyes. For thousands of years it has always been women
who have seen resurrection on earth.
Now, too, they see it, or would they follow me?
I did not want to be their leader, but the idea wanted it and ordained
that I should be its apostle. When I was tired, when I felt down-hearted
and doubt assailed me, whenever I felt unworthy of the call, I always
remembered that the love for one’s country and people which is put
into one’s soul is the measure of what one is able to achieve. It will
succeed, it must succeed; and my voice, broken with much speaking,
recovered before another meeting at the other end of the town, and women
who had heard me already ran in front of me in the street, so that when I
reached the new meeting they were waiting for me there, and listened to
me again.
Late at night, dead tired, I struggle home, and flee to my mother for
rest. We sit for a long time in the little green room, and she encourages
me if I am weary, and she always finds the word that heals. Then, late,
we go to sleep. The evening is long and gives me rest. I speak of my
wanderings—and what I had felt dimly, as if in a haze, while my fatigue
lasted, revives with imperative insistence, and I can think of nothing
else.
* * * * *
To-day a new misfortune has overtaken Hungary. The French Colonel Vyx,
who has lately come to Budapest as head of the Entente’s military
mission, has sent a memorandum to the Hungarian Government, which
contains the price of the Czechs’ high-treason. The victorious Powers
claim from Hungary the evacuation of all Upper Hungary, because they
recognise the sovereignty of the Czecho-Slovak State and consider its
army as an allied army....
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