The catafalque of the fallen Red soldiers has been erected in front of the county hall; red flowers, a red cross. (Why the cross?) Red shrouds showed under the lids of the red coffins. Only the little son of Stefanovic was not among them—the only child of a counter-revolutionary railway man. He was the best pupil of his school, a fervent little patriot, but was called up and had to go. He was wounded under the vineyards and implored the soldiers in vain to take him back to Balassagyarmat. They had no time—they were carrying rice. So the boy dragged himself to a field of oats and when the Czechs came back they found him and clubbed him to death with the butts of their rifles—“the little red vermin.” His parents brought the corpse back, and the Directorate sent them a red coffin. “That is enough,” said his father, “he shall never be buried with such tomfoolery.” Among the dead Reds there are many little Stefanovics. Passers-by stop reverently at their graves, for they hated the Directorship of the Proletariat and loved their country. Two soldiers came into the yard, two sad-faced boys, and asked for red flowers and red ribbons for their comrades. Out there, unmarked graves; in here, propaganda funerals. In front of the county hall Comrade Singer pronounced the valedictory discourse: “We take leave of you with the promise that we will fight with merciless hatred against the bourgeoisie, and, should we perish, the very blades of grass will continue the fight, animated by our hatred.” In the cemetery the minister spoke: “My brethren in the Lord, standing at these open graves, let your last word be that of love....” In these two speeches Christ and those who had crucified him met. * * * * * _June 2nd._ Sometimes the candle flares up before it goes out. So with the news to-day. In this morning’s paper we read: “Szeged is in the hands of the counter-revolutionaries. The opposition Government has removed from Arad to Szeged and is in communication with the Hungarian counter-revolutionaries of Vienna. Western Hungary is organising and in Szeged Hungarian White Guards are being formed under French protection....” [Illustration: ALEXANDER SZABADOS _alias_ SINGER. ASSISTANT COMMISSARY FOR FOOD. ] It is actually in the Red papers! Have the Entente Powers stopped the Rumanians on the banks of the Tisza to give us a chance of saving ourselves by our own efforts? That would at least be human justice. A nation, deadly humiliated, could thus regain its self-respect. If only this were the case! Then we could bless our two months’ sufferings. Not Rumanians but Hungarians would retake Budapest from the Red tyrant.