English Translation

74.) few of the European states in 1919 due to their internal conditions were sufficiently prepared for the new European democratizing revolution. Many of them were unable to cope with the huge and unexpected post-war uncertainties that were evident in the various experts in public life, political, economic, financial difficulties, monetary questions, questions of modern administration, national affairs, etc. It must be admitted that in some European states, the implementation of democratic principles has been exaggerated, particularly in the speed with which some people's movements sought to replace the anti-democratic orders with new regimes: e.g. the communist revolution in Hungary, the agrarian revolution in Bulgaria, some insufficient nation states. In other countries there was no courage to go as far as it would have been possible and as the interest of the state and democracy required: for example in Germany, Poland, later in France, etc. All of this had a very serious influence on the viability of the new democratic revolution and, to a very large extent, led to the com-mensuratement of the authoritarian reaction in Europe. But the same inevitable and legitimizing law of counter-revolutionary reaction today also has its power in the counterrevolution of authoritarian regimes. It is an absolute and manifest truth that the authoritarian states are hard for their anti-democratic