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Count Stephen Bethlen von Bethlen, onetime Premier of Hungary, decided last week that trying to straighten out the problems of a mad world was a waste of time, announced his retirement from politics. "Nowadays," said he, "only those who breakfast on Jews, lunch on aristocrats, and after dinner deal out fortunes and properties not belonging to them are national heroes. I am no match for them...
Central figures were three sometime friends, once all leaders in Hungary's anti-Communist coalition, now the three most conspicuous rivals in Hungary. They were Premier Julius Gömbös, onetime Premier Count Stephen Bethlen and Tibor Eckhardt, Hungary's delegate to the League of Nations until four months ago. Lately Count Bethlen in a campaign speech quoted Premier Gömbös against Delegate Eckhardt. Herr Eckhardt screamed slander, sent his seconds to call on the Count. Bethlen apologized, saying that he had merely quoted Gömbös. The seconds went...
...against duelling. Gömbös asked the advice of the venerable papa of Hungarian politics. Regent Admiral Nicholas de Horthy. Thereupon he accepted the challenge but had his seconds explain to Eckhardt's seconds that he, Gömbös, had never said what Bethlen claimed he had said. This satisfactorily stopped that duel but it set off two others...
...Bethlen promptly sent his seconds to call on Gömbös, who wearily trumped up another "explanation." And in Parliament up bobbed a Gömbös deputy who had decided he did not like Eckhardt's manner. The deputy, Ladislas Szalay, offered a choice of fists, pistols or light cavalry sabres at dawn. Eckhardt took sabres and the two men whacked at one another for half an hour, ten rounds, until both were, according to the seconds, "completely exhausted." Sweating and gasping, slightly scratched about the head and shoulders and completely unreconciled, the two went...
Snapped Minister of Interior Keresztes-Fischer, who controls the police, "I agree. Count Bethlen is right as usual...