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Prime Minister Count Stephen Bethlen de Bethlen banged his desk...
Parliament adjourned without fixing a date for meeting again. A committee of 35 was appointed to help the Bethlen Cabinet rule Hungary by decree...
Count Stephen Bethlen de Bethlen has been continuously Prime Minister longer than anyone else now living: ten years. In that time he has kept Hungary from Communism, weathered the franc-forging scandal which embroiled many of the country's leading personages (TIME, Jan. 18, 1926 et seq.), kept France and her Little Entente (Czechoslovakia, Jugoslavia, Rumania) at bay; made an alliance with Dictator Mussolini, signed treaties of friendship or arbitration with Austria, Turkey, Switzerland, the United States. Last week correspondents realized that Count Bethlen's rule was seriously threatened. The German crash and the general European situation...
...years the Bethlen regime has kept in power by a neat device. Electoral districts, chiefly in the country, were made ''open ballot" districts. In them voters had to announce before the election committee just whom they wanted to vote for. It worked beautifully, but this spring the number of open ballot districts was reduced. As a result of the election 51 Opposition members took their places in the Hungarian parliament, and by the Hungarian Constitution 50 members have the right to call special and general sessions...
Viscount Rothermere, London publisher who had posted a $10,000 prize for the first flight from the U. S. to Hungary, promptly telegraphed the money to Premier Bethlen with a request to hand it to the flyers...