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...Government of Premier Count Stephen Bethlen had simply made public the text of a bill revising the present statute under which the number of Jewish students in Hungarian colleges is limited to about 5% of the total student body. Close examination of the new bill showed that even if passed it would not increase the Jewish ratio by more than 1%. But in anti-Semitic Hungary one more percent in Jews can seem too many. Even so, why did not the Hungarian police protect harassed Jewish scholars, last week...
Jurists remembered that an old law, still operative, gives to Hungarian undergraduates the right of "self government," and prohibits the municipal police from entering university property. Only the national army police may make. arrests on a Hungarian campus; and they were not ordered out last week by Count Bethlen, a cold, closelipped, bony statesman inclined to let Conservatives and anti-Semities have loose rein...
Perhaps Poland may now look forward to new Fascist innovations, for. the two dictators are sure to discuss the relative merits of dictatorship, etc. It is recalled that Premier Count Stephen Bethlen of Hungary returned from Rome early in the year to promise the startled and unhappy Hungarians a few Fascist reforms, so enamored was he of Signor Mussolini's personality and government...
Twice in 1921 the late onetime Emperor Karl (King Karl IV of Hungary) attempted to regain his Hungarian throne; each time he was thwarted: the Little Entente powers, by threatening armed intervention, forced Admiral Nicholas Horthy de Nagybanya, Governor of Hungary, and his able Premier, Count Stephan Bethlen, to oppose his ill-advised return and to hand him and Empress Zita over to the British, who exiled him to Funchal on the Island of Madeira, where he died on April 1, 1922, of pneumonia...
Because Hungarians are so reactionary that they retain the form of their government as a kingdom, although deprived of a king by the Allies, and because arch-reactionary Premier Bethlen has been continuously in office longer than any other European prime minister, there is strong likelihood that his new program of openly Fascistizing Hungary will be put through...