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White men have confidence that they can bluff a Chinaman. Perhaps that fact explains why Premier Count Stephen Bethlen of Hungary proceeded, last week, to bluff the League of Nations. He knew that the Acting President of the League Council is now, by alphabetical rotation, His Excellency Tcheng Loh, the Chinese Minister at Paris...
...years ago the criminal, Baron Ludwig Havatny, onetime Hungarian Minister of Finance, retired sugar merchant, launched into journalism at Vienna and wrote a series of articles attacking Count Stephen Bethlen, then as now the reactionary Prime Minister of Hungary, but at that time grappling desperately to establish his government. Count Bethlen's was a "White Terror" as opposed to the previous "Red Terror" of Hungarian Communists under the notorious Bela...
Attacks thrust home at such a moment are keenly felt. For six years Count Bethlen's police have been ready to pounce upon Jew Baron Havatny should he unwarily return to anti-Semitic Budapest. Recently he returned, lulled into false security by the technical expiration of the original order for his arrest. Friends of Count Bethlen had, moreover, allegedly assured Baron Havatny that his attacks had been "forgotten." Last week he was arrested on a new warrant, learned that stern, glacial, silent Dictator Count Bethlen does not forget...
Throughout the trial Count Bethlen could curl his thin lips over a telegraphic appeal for mercy despatched to him from Berlin by several authors of world fame who have followed with approval the literary flowering of luckless Baron Havatny. Signers of the telegram included Gerhart Hauptmann (dean of German dramatists), Arthur Schnitzler (smartest of Austrian dramatists) and Sinclair Lewis (now residing in Berlin). They appealed to Count Bethlen: "We turn to you in order to say a word for our personal friend and highly treasured colleague, Baron Havatny. We hope your wisdom will save a man such as Baron Havatny...
...that settlement of this question should not be postponed, last week, there had come to Geneva the Premier of Hungary Count Stephen Bethlen de Bethlen. He, though potent at home, was no match, at Geneva, for M. Braind who shortly persuaded the Council to delay even consideration of this issue until the next Council meeting in March. Chagrined Hungarians remembered that it was M. Briand who, last March, got the Council to postpone this same matter until the present December...