ip of the
proletariat, decrees the socialization of the large estates, mines,
big industries, banks and lines of transportation, declares its
oneness of purpose with the revolutionary proletariat of Russia and
its readiness to form an armed alliance with the federated Soviet
Republic. All over the country Workmen's, Soldiers' and Peasants'
Councils are in action and take over the functions of government."

"The Revolutionary Age," then a Socialist paper of Boston, on March 29,
1919, showed its complete sympathy for the Bolshevists, Communists and
Spartacans:

"So the Hungarian workers set about their task and the eastern sky
is brightening.

"Already the two Soviet governments have issued an appeal to the
workers of all countries to sweep away the old system. The
bourgeois press tells of the spread of Bolshevism throughout
central Europe and the diplomats of Capitalism are turning this way
and that to avert fresh outbreaks. But they are powerless. Every
new move brings new complications, every award of territory here
brings discontent and adds to the 'menace' there.

"Next!

"The fear that weighs upon the world of Capitalism and the
diplomats in Paris is: Who next? The proclamation of a Soviet
Republic in Hungary is to them not a fact, but a symbol--a symbol
of the onward sweep of the proletarian revolution, which may break
loose in other nations.

"Through this symbol looms Soviet Russia--gigantic, mysterious and
implacable. Despised by the world of Capitalism, intrigued against
and vilified, isolated in the spaces of its own territory, attacked
by the soldiers of the Allies--Soviet Russia, through the flaming
energy of its proletariat and Socialism has conquered in spite of
all. The Allies, their Capitalism and Imperialism, are no longer a
menace to Soviet Russia; it is now Soviet Russia that menaces the
Allies through its own gigantic strength and the threat of the
international proletarian revolution....

"And this revolutionary army of Soviet Russia, massed at the
frontier, is prepared to march into Hungary or Poland or Germany to
co-operate with the revolutionary masses in any war that may be
necessary against international Imperialism and for the proletarian
revolution.

"The situation in Germany is critical and crucial. The