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Czech Masaryk allegedly went on to say that his proposals were submitted some months ago in a confidential note to Hungary's steely-eyed little dictator. Count Stephen Bethlen, who ignored them. Seemingly last week the Patriarch of Prague was unsheathing against Count Bethlen the same bright weapon of open propaganda openly arrived at which he wielded mightily during the War until the Powers agreed that Czechoslovakia ought and must become an independent state. Like his good friend Herbert Clark Hoover, Thomas Garrigue Masaryk works by mobilizing public opinion behind "the moral and spiritual values." Last week he declared...
Exactly the opposite view was taken by Count Stephen Bethlen, dictator and Prime Minister of Hungary, who has repeatedly accredited Count Apponyi to the League...
Sternly warning the Legitimists to cease their activities, Count Bethlen declared: ''Let me say, once for all, that no plans for the election of a king have been made. If and when they are made they will be placed before the country in a proper manner...
Since Count Bethlen himself recently intimated that a royal election might be expected soon, his remarks of last week probably meant that the Allied Powers have quietly but firmly informed the Prime Minister that he must deflate his original trial balloon. On Nov. 10, 1921 the Hungarian Government was obliged to assure the Allied Conference of Ambassadors in Paris that no Habsburg would be placed on the Hungarian Throne. The nation, now a "Kingless Kingdom," is technically free to elect anyone not a Habsburg to be King...
Count Apponyi.and the "Divine Right'' Legitimists, who hold that no election is necessary, charge that Count Bethlen is only biding his dictatorial time, waiting for a chance to have himself elected King. Meanwhile the Archduke Otto continues to rusticate in Spain...