“The power of the Dictatorship of the Proletariat is now in the hands of an active minority,” said Béla Kun. In giving the list of the delegates’ names ‘The Red Newspaper’ and ‘The People’s Voice’ show what this active minority is. Practically every member of it belongs to the foreign race. In his programme, Béla Kun clamours for the application of merciless violence. “The quotation of pacificism has suffered a slump, and the quotation, not of the imperialistic war but of the revolutionary class war, is soaring.... The army is nothing but the armed Proletariat. It is a class army ... this does not mean that we intend to limit our recruiting to the industrial Proletariat of the towns. It would be rank folly to expose to the risk of death none but the _élite_ of the Proletariat. The self-conscious Proletarians must be distributed among the Proletarians who possess self-consciousness in a lesser degree. We must be sparing with the class-conscious Proletarians.” This is meant for the educated classes, the manufacturers and agriculturists. Never have words contained more calculated iniquity. The Israelites have redeemed their blood with that of the Canaanites. Let him bear the cross who is about to be crucified on it. Béla Kun continued to outline his programme. He had but a few words for the land question: “That my programme does not say much about it is quite natural. It is a question concerning which we are still groping in the dark. I admit that.” They will talk about it later, when the peasant has paid the blood tax. Till that is done, let him live in the illusion that his land is his own and is not appropriated by the Co-operatives of Production belonging to the Government. “The Dictatorship must apply stricter measures!” Pogány exclaimed. He spoke of the Counter-revolution in West Hungary. “There is only one road open for us: Forward, to the left!” Comrade Horváth, of whom it is common knowledge that he has stolen his clothes from Count Joseph Károlyi’s castle, declared that the prestige of the Dictatorship ought to be improved and expressed himself disparagingly of the Soviet delegates: “I declare and am ready to prove that in Székesfehérvár one evening there were sixty political delegates in the coffee-house whose Polish-Jewish origin was unmistakably written on their faces.” Vágó-Weiss, a People’s Delegate, interrupted: “How dare you talk like that?” and Számuelly banged his desk with his fist. How hurt they are if we touch anything belonging to them; but if we express pain when they destroy our God and our country they hang us. All references to gallows, all threatening and bloodthirsty speeches were suppressed by the newspapers, out of consideration for foreign countries. The meeting was concluded by a speech by Béla Kun in which Hungary’s Dictator furnished some further characteristic details about himself and his order.