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Among the wobbling governments of post-War Europe, when revolution or relief were the alternatives, he had packed a lifetime of experience: cabling pleas for food, studying revolution in Hungary as the Bela Kun* Government rose and fell racing around a Europe where panics and crises, revolution and breakdown flared in the first days of peace. Through ten of those 20 years he had been Herbert Hoover, Secretary of Commerce organizer of Mississippi flood relief. His reputation as a humanitarian and an administrator was unequalled. Through the next ten years that reputation had been overlaid by another: he had been...
...descendant of ancient Transylvanian Princes, long an inconspicuous member of the pre-War Hungarian Parliament, the gaunt, mustached, eagle-beaked Count was almost unknown outside his own country when in 1921 he became Premier of storm-tossed Hungary. After the War, when Hungary was ravaged by Bela Kun's flaming Bolshevism, Count Bethlen was one of the organizers of the French-sponsored aristocratic counterrevolution that exterminated the Communists and eventually established Admiral Horthy as Regent of the kingless Hungarian kingdom...
...Balkans, Greece invaded Turkey, occupied Anatolia, was driven back after more than a year of fighting. Rumanian, Czech and Yugoslavian armies overran Hungary, seized livestock, locomotives, battled the Communist Government of Bela...
Last month Hungary's Premier Bela Imrédy, speaking at his home town of Baja, declared he had not one drop of Jewish blood in his veins, showed baptismal certificates of his grandparents to prove it. This was his answer to a widespread whispering campaign that the Premier, author of severe anti-Semitic bills introduced recently in the Hungarian Parliament, was himself part Jewish...
...swing. But the world's No. 1 highbrow fiddler, Joseph Szigeti,* and the world's No. 1 swing clarinetist, Benny Goodman, have long admired each other. When Hungarian-born Szigeti heard Goodman last year, he was so impressed that he wrote home to his friend, Composer Bela Bartók, asking him to compose something that he and Goodman could play together. Absent-minded Bartók didn't even bother to answer, but surprised Szigeti a few months later by sending him the manuscript of a brand-new Rhapsody for Clarinet and Violin...