Chapter XVIII: Part I: Revolution

with a Foreword by The Duke
of Northumberland.

Published by
PHILIP ALLAN & CO.

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Footnote 1:

A photograph of St. Stephen’s Crown (the Holy Hungarian crown) is
reproduced at page 162 of Part I of this work.

Footnote 2:

A portrait of Böhm is reproduced at page 196 of Part I of this book.

Footnote 3:

Francis Rákoczi, the leader of the Kuruc rising against the Hapsburgs,
in the early years of the 18th Century, a national hero, is buried in
the Cathedral of Kassa. His body was transferred from Turkey to Kassa
in 1907. [Transl.]

Footnote 4:

It is a common belief in Hungary (and in many other countries) that if
a murderer approaches the corpse of his victim the blood will flow
from the fatal wound. [Transl.]

Footnote 5:

For a further account of him _see pp. 228–229_.

Footnote 6:

The Publishers of this volume are greatly indebted to Dr. Oscar
Szollosy and to the Editor of _The Anglo-Hungarian Review_ for
permission to include this account of some of the chief actors in The
Terror.

Footnote 7:

The People’s Commissioner for Public Education, George Lukács, was the
son of a wealthy banker, and was persuaded to join the Communists by
the crack-brained daughter of an extremely rich Budapest solicitor,
who subsequently assisted Béla Kún and his associates to counterfeit
banknotes, till finally she was thrashed publicly (in the street) with
a hunting crop by an embittered ‘bourgeois.’ A portrait of Lukács is
reproduced at page 106 of this volume.

A certain Ministerial Councillor, Stephen Láday, once declared
emphatically to the writer of this article that Communism might be
very pretty in theory, but was, in his opinion, impossible in
practice. Two months later Láday became a Bolshevik People’s
Commissioner.

Footnote 8:

For a portrait of Béla Kún, see vol. i., p. 160 of this work, where a
further account of him is given.

Footnote 9:

See pp. 96–98.

Footnote 10:

See vol. i., p. 70.

Footnote 11:

A story which is far from improbable, though it certainly sounds like
a popular anecdote, runs to the effect that, at a trial of one of the
proletarian tribunals, in answer to the ‘Public Prosecutor’s’
question: ‘Where did you take the stolen articles?’ one of the persons
accused of theft said, ‘To the woman in Budafok to whom you and I took
that bicycle last year!’

Footnote 12:

A photograph of her is reproduced at p. 140 of this volume.

Footnote 13:

See also pp. 185–186.

Footnote 14:

There were similar detachments outside of Budapest, the same being
delegated to hold the provincial towns in mortal terror, _e.g._, the
‘Fabik Detachment’ in Székesfehérvár, the ‘Gombos Terror Gang’ in
Györ, etc.

Footnote 15:

Béla Kún and a large number of his fellow-Commissioners escaped to
Vienna. Our efforts to obtain their extradition by Austria were
fruitless; under the pressure of the Socialists the Austrian
Government refused, and subsequently handed them over to the Russian
Soviet authorities.

After the re-establishment of law and order, of the revolutionary
criminals arrested ninety-six were condemned to death, the rest being
sentenced to various terms of imprisonment. Of the persons condemned
to death fourteen were reprieved, eighteen (together with 400 other
condemned persons) handed over—in exchange for Hungarian prisoners of
war—to the Russian Soviet, while sixty-four were hanged, the latter
number including Korvin, László, Schán, and Cserny.

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