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...blatancies, came news that Signor Mussolini was unusually active last week in participating in a series of quiet conferences with visiting foreign statesmen, which began when he received Turkish Foreign Minister Tewfik Rushdi Bey in Milan (TIME, April 16). Further august visitors received last week were Prime Minister Count Bethlen of Hungary, Foreign Minister August Zaleski of Poland, Foreign Minister Andrew Michalapoulos of Greece, and German Finance Minister Dr. Heinrich Koehler...
With this tall, gangling Celestial at the 'helm of the League, Count Bethlen dared, last week, to order destroyed the evidence in a case upon which the Council was expected to sit in judgment when it convenes in March. The case was that involving five carloads of machine gun parts, smuggled last December from Italy across Austria and into Hungary, where they arrived on New Year's Day. This smugglery (a flagrant violation of the Treaty of Trianon under which Hungary is disarmed) has caused Czechoslovakia, Jugoslavia and Rumania, to demand a League investigation. Therefore, last week, Continental...
Together they drafted a telegram as timid as the position of Tcheng Loh is delicate. Transmitted through the League Secretariat, this message reached Prime Minister Count Bethlen of Hungary in the following form: ". . . The Council of the League, having before it a request from the Czechoslovak, Jugoslav and Rumanian Governments and having learned from the press that the Hungarian Government is going to sell the objects to which the request refers, thinks it would be prudent to delay this project, the matter involved coming before the Council in a few days...
Within a few hours came the curt, scornful reply of Premier Count Bethlen, a martinet, a virtual dictator: "The Hungarian Government tonight received with surprise your telegram. . . . The public auction sale [of the demolished parts] is scheduled for tomorrow. . . . It is impossible to postpone the auction...
...Trianon. Germany is expected to take the same stand, though for the different reason that she fears the establishment of a precedent which would confirm the League's right to investigate German supplies of arms as well as Hungarian. Thus it seemed, last week, that Count Stephen Bethlen might eventually succeed in bluffing not merely one Chinaman but the League Council as a whole...