"Red Catherine"

Countess Michael Karclyi, known in Hungary as "Red Catherine," arrived in Manhattan on the George Washington "to recoup her lost fortune" by giving lectures at $250 apiece on Hungarian affairs before and after the War.

The Countess and her husband were responsible for the establishment of the Hungarian Republic in 1918. Next year, so their enemies averred, they "sold the country to the Bolsheviki." Hence S. Stan wood Menken, President of the National Security League, was up in arms to prevent the landing in the U. S. of "Red Catherine." Said he :

"According to reports I received at first hand in Budapest last summer, the Countess is regarded as the most valuable ally the Bolsheviki have in Central Europe, because of her charming personality, her beauty and her ability as an actress to present in varying tones her cause and to make appeal to fashionable audiences. Her husband's record is history and there is no denial that she has been his constant ally. I was further informed that when Bela Kun was taken from jail it was the Countess who was his escort on that occasion. We have deported the Emma Goldmans and others whose sufferings make them prey to any people, whether communistic or nihilistic. And the en tire policy of the Government is the prohibition of just the type of undesirable as Countess Karolyi. ... I regret having to launch an attack upon a woman, but the issue is too important for squeamishness."

To the charge that she was a Bolshevik, the Countess retorted : "This is quite ridiculous. My husband and I are Socialists, but that does not mean that we are Communists."

"I am coming here to lecture for three months at the invitation of a committee of American women, and my subjects will be Hungary and European Peace, Why I am an Exile and the Last Three Hungarian Revolutions.

Immigration officials questioned the Countess for twelve minutes, bade her land.

Countess Michael Karolyi, nee Andrassy, was once considered the most beautiful woman in Hungary, where a very large proportion of women are beautiful. She is not yet 30 years of age and is the step-daughter of Count Julius Andrassy, last Foreign Minister of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, and a granddaughter of the famous Count Julius, who was the greatest Minister of State that the Monarchy had had since the passing of Metternich.