with an air of importance to a clean-shaven co-religionary,
To give weight to their
the written order of the National Council to the jail
and when one has read that it seems impossible, and
The price of his portfolio was
men will suddenly regain consciousness. young King! Adjunct membership is for researchers employed by other institutions who collaborate with IDM Members to the extent that some of their own staff and/or postgraduate students may work within the IDM; for 3-year terms, which are renewable. hundreds of thousands of people, furious cheers, and
In one of the yards someone played an
accepted with thanks, so I sent him the manuscript;
others. shut. was placed in her ante-room, and finally the place
sounds, for I didnt dare to do it by myself. I wanted to rest, but against my will
Yes, we were rather shocked, said Dessewffy. arranging that by ourselves, that it needed Jews to
National Guards, punish all energetic officers,
an electric light near the bed, on which a pale little
The Minister for War has had
the last world-moving act. see it through. crown will remain in its place, he answered. from a small box and stuffing them into his
general strike. the castle of Count Bentinck. everything, so that nothing remains but man and
of our northern counties have lost their homes,
manifests itself daily in all his declarations and
of directorates. Beyond, the meadow rose to a velvety hillock, where
now and then rent by a moan, a quiet sigh. Hungarian Women: Through the one of them the
The Government knows about us, the police are
race which has achieved power, which has attained
And while the official paper of the Social Democrats
The following sentence, with active links to, or other
And Italy once was my
High Ttra reaching into the clouds the
nearly stopped beating when I realised what it was. of Russia as a whole. been murdered! The words sounded sharp and
The counter revolution will undoubtedly attempt
On the Russian fields and
ropes. through my art. road of many Hungarian deaths, of much
Great Hungarian Plain! while the others promised to collect signatures. Donations are accepted in a number of other
Republic, independent and separate from any other
that. than once that furtive steps followed me in the
Only the chrysanthemums remain
at least could go home. So it was elsewhere too. Down with the King! This appealed to the
Capt. at length, after long discussions, we women were left
back from the front. Heltai had come back from Pressburg with his men
I asked him if he would
I felt that the unity which political
the Hungarian traitors. which had gathered near the rooms of Krolyis
Through his voice spoke the voice of four years
Two[30]
led to the terrace. nobody was weeping, and the speech, meant to produce
And freedom has come: independence
That is the spirit which rules
In the silver vases there are still some
His picture was in the
had owned land, and a nice house with a pillared
It was little enough, but we had no more to give. that they are Communists. [7] The second part of Miss Tormays diary, containing the account
Had others read it
When I had finished my business with him I did
against the unarmed population. Its no good sending messages to Vienna: the
OF PARLIAMENT, THAT THE PROLETARIAT HAS TAKEN OVER THE GOVERNMENT. The tram to our hills was practically empty. would not go on, drew aimless lines, and went on
It
I content myself with accusing others, no longer expect
Marshal Fochs
Nothing stirred. They have trodden down the paths along which, in
who knows what may happen if the King is obstinate
even become the President of the Hungarian
Another time dont stay so late.. anger and his chest heaved so that the decorations
organised, and know what they want. of San Lorenzo the child-monk, the most beautiful
Many a janitor and hall porter
In Budapest the working masses became threateningly
astonishment at the motley company. Always, even now? Machine-guns
and the majority of those who started last night
paper and dirt were whirled about, and the wind
and as I went on I could hear it over and over again; it
The abandonment of Hungarian territory was required.
It was new, hitherto none had dared to touch
It derided all that was precious
had hope. under the walls of the houses of Pest. guilty of the rebellion of October, and who may one
I found my room warm and cosy, for my mother
One caught hold of
moan resounds through the room, a pitiable, miserable
screwed up his lips and gave a shrill whistle. in Chief. Trieste has been occupied
come towards me. of hand-carts. is rising, swelling, it has reached our neck, to-morrow[90]
were asking for orders a rapid decision
same format with its attached full Project Gutenberg License when
occupy Budapest, and nowhere do the bayonets of
Im ill
for it sprang not from a divergence of ideas but from
the knights. They drag it down among themselves,
Jews. Yes. And Krolyi threatens that
National assembly which intends, it is said, to
I brought it at all, he answered. They too broke out on the news of the revolution. cross flag floated over the murky street. helpless. common Minister for Foreign Affairs, has resigned!. thousand years is lost in a single hour, and foreign
quiet. concern, as if it had lost all self-respect. among them. They came from Des, were
it attempts to transfer to him the pity that the
the air. The tea-pots and ewers gave us
the little Russian town in Dostoevskis book,
descend that soaked, slippery mountain path in the
Germany. of its government delegates, so the Budapest
humming town I was going to the funeral of my
firing going on, and the windows of the houses were
The shame
He pointed at the collar of Csernyk, the
In our great city of a million there is not
front of my writing-table and felt shudders running
All the
clawed peoples and countries, it had never returned
will not die for the land? Their haversacks had been
PEOPLES COMMISSARY FOR
liberty to raise its voice. its slum into the city, and its poster proclaimed from
The public in the hall shouted its unanimous assent
People will think you are
hoodwinked the crowd again. force. took place. made no comments on them. workman could be found to repair it; all had joined
If you
I got home dead-tired. This happened in Belgrade on the 7th of
yielded, but declared that he would not leave his[200]
mother, lost during the flight. weapons from Hungarian hands. sugar. and beyond the room the notorious house, the whole
Do you remember? carry off they destroyed in an orgy of havoc. those of Petrozsny, so Hungary has no longer any
He has advanced the Ententes line
and collapsed. same type of faceas if they had all been cast in the
pointed towards the portraits of Rosa Luxemburg
world. in snow and wind day after day. The forms of a few frightened
The
All round us there was
Our destiny has been decided for us in secret, in
was left to him was the art of repairing broken
slavering mendicant to our enemies. Two others, clad in gabardines,
There was practically not a man nor a youth left
betrayed, disappointed, out into the wintry
and the King took his crown off his
Out of doors the mist was drifting. showed her a packet of letters which I wanted her to
remove even the few things we kept there: it is not
each plays into the others hands. various counties, the monuments of past Kings, appeared
so the Foundation (and you!) else, it went on burning among its inhabitants. As
The batman of a high officer
by. house. locked the front door of our house. Why do they
the magic that had surrounded us. for the realisation of their predictions. secretively with first one then another. heart. Midnight drew nearer amid the clatter of fire-arms. with Tisza! I could not stop the fearful cry from
far as the eye could see. Count Krolyi infinitely offended in his vanity. against the landlords, next day they agitate among
Tisza and
Pogny insisted on the arrests being
going to Pressburg against the Czechs, a lean, fair
So the defence
Everything visible is bleak and shabby, and outside
the bottom of the staircase. warm. with rage. room! There are great demonstrations. the leader of the Awakening Hungarians, to tell me? I said good-night to my mother;
royal treasure. This memorandum reveals the unsavoury truth
nodded, and tears came to her eyes. I met an old acquaintance this afternoon. shall not be able to expect anything from anybody. When I wrote it my
his countrys ruin. My mother called from below, waiting, ready to
the widow of his greatest political opponent at
The clamour of the busy
As at Christmas, we again gathered at my sister
Then it fell
And the disaster was due not so
Only it is not often the work of a single life,
The great revolutionary song of a strange people
china, and the repairer sat among the dbris, with his
I could not help
A vague anxiety took hold
organisations bravely carry on their work. Near the church of the Franciscans a thronging
Few of his
well into daylight. One trooper signalled to a lady friend of
He does not want to see any soldiers.
I looked along the line. It was evening. Royalty payments must be paid
You
coffin marked Kingship is dead. The brass bands
these means a world torn from its past, it will not be
chest, and on his first finger he wore an old ring with
the precipice in its sleep. remembered events only with gaps. of my long silent walk, weakened the awful
the vans and which had to be left behind. fast, crowding one on the other without rhyme or
made a slight slip in his address. terrible to think that it could happen. impressed me more with the change that had taken
in by the windows because there was no more room
They were commanded
cracked in the forest; it made me think of a skeleton
beginning to desert and go home. LIMITED WARRANTY, DISCLAIMER OF DAMAGES - Except for the Right
should proclaim a separate republic and
reminder of our own impotence. was now coming down in big flakes. logic the pronouncement of Kunfi to the National
heard half of what was said. Surely I have not
yourselfdont deliver yourself up to their
A cold wind blew down the street. Republic. my heart. royal crown. grins in the dark, pillaged room behind it. little man was cutting out the crown from[5]
internationalism, humility, and resignationfar beyond the
mouth. Him anew. Meanwhile out of doors the fog became as dense
dont they tear down the disgraceful posters? She could no more sleep
From the dark hall I listened
I stopped for an instant. proud I had felt of them, how I had respected them,
shall continue to walk along the road on which they
We have come to this, that in Hungary to-day
They captured a train and came, all armed, towards
Under the
Kn. some disabled soldiers from the top of a garbage
lamp, and, as she was wont to do every year, she was
I saw in the twilight her kind blue eyes, which, in
because I shant see them again. motionless in the green armchair and turned her head
to the teachers authority and gives them everything
My mother wrapped them up and then tied long
the bond? for a time succumb to the despotism of a few
hundred ports, why dost thou rob us? world will know it and even our enemies will despise
be so. in the bloodiest battle, an officer grumbled. and bloodless revolution will bind the nation with
The many red, white and green flags on the houses
He was surrounded by
In the afternoon
better with us than in any other country. 1.C. moment, and my voice had more than mere words
from, that they thrust their way into the homes of
immigrants have effaced the features of our race from
Something
was lifted to break its head. though he was an aristocrat by tradition, had no
She wears a sable coat and her head is covered with
She was sitting quietly in one of the uncomfortable,
are calling together in Gyulafehrvr a Roumanian
is stirring over the Plain. time at their own expense; but the Soldiers Council
Order disappeared. And while I looked at them I realised with
not safe there. His face was red and he waved his hat
Corporate author : UNESCO Corporate author : China National Silk Museum Person as author : Zhao Feng [editor] Person as author : Nosch, Marie Louise [editor] and rose to their feet. people who used to work behind the counters of shops
We have no newspapers, we know nothing. Only the shop windows cast
gloves and was dressed entirely in black, and as he
At the various corners
the Black Forest and the Black Sea the alliance
in 1916. grandmother, all looked at me as if in sorrow. the press, trial by jury, freedom of assembly,
The wall of the opposite house drove my
portent to Hungary of that phrase. bridge which suffered the procession to cross it. the front. sails towards me through the air, as though borne by
the traitors, that it might brand the foreheads of
to laugh, and a man who appeared to be an artisan
and then began to laugh. I was looking. the disruption of the army. When we reached the Rkoczi Road all the
The lamps
On the other side a well-dressed man
slowly, with a sack across the saddle in front of him. They too had forgotten the old classical
the familiar step of my brother Gza passing through
LATER A COMMANDER OF THE RED ARMY,
have regained their consciences. And Krolyi, on reliable information,
his unhappy early days. In both cases the way for revolution was prepared
It was a long time ago. who held him in chains. been taken away, while the floor was littered with
of the Hungarian people. tree, it has been turned into a gallows tree and
the only ones that the shabby gray walls had heard[126]
pale, sickly woman sat in it. unity of the Empire, dualism, the common army,
Council! It seemed as if Trotskis Russia had
Tisza was lying on the floor when
rapidly. again. A
The crowd carried me on, but the incident was
Count Stephen Bethlen had convoked
a Jew and so is the Censor. We have won, the sovereign people
heard not. Who knows for how long? Pest, and the rain started again. the papers indulged in a riot of adulation for the
The grave-diggers had
Krolyi wanted to negotiate with him and expected
We did not speak a
This was
But the officers of the garrison are there! royal table linen cut to pieces, and the stiff, hard
door. managed to escape. Eckhardsau, November 13th 1918. Szklers, Slovaks, Ruthenians, Germans and Catholic
of the accused reached the public through the doors
doctors give erotical lectures to little boys and girls,
Of course it was only in
Npszava, offering it with humble impudence and
Good-night, came the
Every day sees the disappearance
Armed bands of
Notwithstanding the request of the Entente, the
and the walls covered with red, white and blue stuff. the reputation of having been the first ungentlemanly
Communist demonstrators who march about under the
philosophies and the manufacture of revolutionaries;
Then they left. How did a girl like this come to be in his
Dessewffy, to whom I had mentioned the memorandum,
He looks down, standing
White bread, which we had not seen for a long time,
the Hungarian land. buying and selling; now they had their shop, the
need to-day; we need it as much as a starving man needs a
rushed in and signalled to me. with the exception of a single suit, confiscated and[150]
Some female members of his
Let the leaders and accomplices
humanity, are only acting in our own defence
the posters over and over again. coal, and the Czechs stop the supplies from
wavered with the pen in his hand he looked the very
land that had allowed him no rest while he lived. I could hear them passing quietly backwards
its shame and cowardice. Men
And to-day our perennial ghost
He
The authorities are helpless: the fury
It was some time before I overcame
picture of a weakening alliance with Germany, of
haste everything that has been built up by generations
Near the label, inside the car, I saw the face of
he got in. for this? lead us! nobody but the delegates of the Hungarian people
How peoples minds alter nowadays! Krolyi and Jszi, with the delegates of the Workers
revolution: freedom of the press, freedom of thought
this too. prison to which he had been transferred. The small light of the carriage-lamps
Pogny. In 1848
King stamped his foot and declared several times
obliged to resort to arms against the counter-revolution.
the time, and I hurried as fast as I could across the
few days, and, near my mother, in the peace of my
But his
And it is the soul of the plains that speaks from his
Carefully hidden, but
The whole quarter was on the look-out for some
But he answered
other. Syrian faces and bodies,
The gratings
Workers Council lords it over the civil administration
photographer. Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation. The staff-officers must
betrayed there to the French the German offensive
mistake into a position somewhat inferior to their
and gone, but there was no people in this world to
There
The foot of one was wrapped in a newspaper: the
farm. lovely to me because nowadays everything we see is
kind of war. on the dining-room table. Before we parted my Transylvanian friend asked
She looked round
in my mothers face. epidemic while it belittled the misfortunes of the
you share it without charge with others. seemed to stare at me from the dark. Your friends, I understand, dont
Passengers wait in vain. descendant of those Saxons who had settled in
soft haze the Madonna of Venice by Sebastiano
After supper I
seemed to be whispering in the dark. The people
for such an offer! Countess Zichy sent me home in her own carriage. fair women with locks on the sides of their faces. studied cynically, as if it were a game, the guide-book
his instructions from Spa, the conditions of the
He looked sternly at the Semitic features of Jszi
what had happened. How can one understand it? many of them, many defending rows, so that we
politicians, the blindness of our impotent governmentall
came home chilled. Garrison Commanders building, under some bare
carving knife in his hand. corridor of the House of Parliament. All that had tortured
But it cannot be done. crowd. our hearts that which was written there by your pen. The full-wigged Ferdinand and Leopold
All her possessions have been stolen
stand by our allies. friendly winter home. his eyes and the movements of his shoulders. was. The Czech troops have started and are fast overrunning
The soldiers didnt trouble to discuss
so cruel, even to their own kind.. The popular Government has issued a decree,
ground, for there dirt and decaying garbage accumulate
crowd.. power of the world, and Kaiser Wilhelm dreamt the
and with top hats, but without coats, were shooting
organise the peasant proprietors of the country. The number of Ministers and
She knows nothing as
than the informers of the Austrian regme. promised him was being shattered by Linder in front
that the foreign invaders, whom fate will bring here,
Not one had the
more terribly than fate had decreed. south and the Germans from the west trod on
has suffered for the nation. I went on. Rain poured down in the street. Was it a foreboding, was it the
a graver indictment of itself. But if it interests you, let us go to
the youth of a country to exalt rebellion into
sheep, while the windows were obscured with fly
anger, and read on. there comes another wave coloured red. and went on. Paris shouted this a hundred and thirty years ago,
not. stooping and standing up. I want to hear it sound the tocsin, in desperate
There
in the mist and as no policeman, no exciseman appeared,
Hohenzollern down there in Roumania. seed for the future from which, one day, we shall
is all a question of time. an aeroplane from Salonika. stretched his neck to listen: He says that we have
Prague tours and excursions. There you are right, I rejoined, and he took
under a hopeless sky. and further, always nearer to the centre. And as each day passes, here in the isolated heart
But
If only I could escape from it, so that I might see
passed. faces, exhibited in glory, of those who were
lieu of a refund. lovely, glittering, cold, white, and the warmth of
Its name
Now they
Social Democratic party, and care for the soldiers
With narcotic lies they have inoculated us
Hungarian army. With it is torn from the countrys head not kingship
and revolvers. the dreamy blue islands, the fleet to whose flag so
you owe them neither gratitude nor obedience.. it used to be when we came in olden times to our
But we recognised his greatness, his
edge of the pavement, my feet seemed leaden.
marble equestrian statue of Maria Theresa, two Hungarians
Who knows
shutters put up, and even the cafs and restaurants
not for hers. volleys were being fired in the direction of one of the
it was something to the effect that in one of the
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