If ever the time comes to call to account this soul-killing, defeatist, alien press, which revelled over the revolution, over Károlyi, the capitulation, the Republic, the foreign occupation, and now lauds Béla Kun and Bolshevism; should ever that time come, I can imagine the defence: ‘... the terror, ... brutal force....’ But why do the papers carry on? Why do they not stop publication? The press-dictator elucidates this point when he declares proudly, “the Free Union of Journalists played an important rôle in the preparation and realisation of the political revolution in October and the social upheaval of to-day.” These mouthpieces of Hungarian public opinion have for the last few decades been exclusively Jews. Though I shudder with disgust yet I cannot resist the temptation of taking the newspaper into my hand, and I read ‘The People’s Voice’ of March 25th: “The work has begun.... The courage to demolish, the relentlessness of destruction and the unfaltering determination to rebuild, these are the spiritual instruments by which the Proletarian State must be established and its socialism must be realised.” What can be their physical instruments when destruction is only a spiritual aid? I read on: “Lenin predicts victory in the near future!... The Russian Red army is victorious on the Galician frontier, and the enemy is in flight. The victory surpasses all hopes.... The position of the Imperialist Government in England is shaken. Hungarian events have caused the downfall of Clemenceau.... Serbian imperialism is on the verge of complete collapse. The southern counties have accepted the principle of the Dictatorship of the Proletariat. There are signs of disruption in Serbia. The Proletariat is preparing for the final battle.” The papers lie in a heap, and I pick them up at random: “The Revolutionary Government has decided to raise a Red army. It has been decided to change the names of the barracks from that of imperialist kings and militarist generals. In future they will bear the names of Lenin, Marx, Liebknecht, Rosa Luxemburg....” A Red army instead of the national army. Instead of Francis Joseph and Maria-Theresa barracks we shall have Lenin and Rosa Luxemburg barracks. “Austria has recognised the Hungarian Soviet Republic and has accredited the envoys of Béla Kun.... Two new Soviet Republics: On the 28th a Soviet Republic was proclaimed in Wiener Neustadt. In Chotin the Bessarabian Soviet Republic has been proclaimed. At the elections for the Workers’ Councils in Brunswick the Communists have gained a victory.”