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Tight-lipped Prime Minister Count Stephan de Bethlen hurried back to Budapest last week from Rome. On his flying visit he had lunched with Il Rex, had talked several times for several hours with Il Duce, once for an hour and a quarter with Papal Secretary of State Cardinal Pacelli...
Count Andreas Bethlen, youngest son of Hungarian Prime Minister Count Stephen Bethlen, was sentenced in Budapest to three days State detention for sabre-hacking a Count Almassy in a duel. For his part in the duel, which originated in a bar when a lady's name was lightly mentioned, Count Almassy will serve two days State detention?confinement under supervision with privilege of receiving guests, eating self-provided food...
...ever since. 1929. In Budapest last week Hungary's new War Minister Julius ("No Mattresses!") Goembos,* laid before Parliament a new, drastic military penal code restoring the penalty of flogging. The measure is as good as passed since it was introduced with the full approval of Dictator Stephen Bethlen.† Soon many a Hungarian soldier will receive an old fangled flogging thus: He strips to the waist. Meanwhile whips have been doled out to the men of his company and they line up in double ranks, facing inward. Down the alley of whips the delinquent must march...
...denounced his predecessor for ordering mattresses (TIME, Oct. 21), will continue the tradition of keeping Hungarian soldiers "hard" by making them sleep on bags stuffed with straw or worse. †Plays written by the Countess Margit Bethlen and produced in Italy are sure of extravagant praise from Dictator Mussolini, now angling for an alliance with Dictator Bethlen...
Having made these generous proposals President Masaryk sternly declared, according to Dr. Rajniss, that he is aware of certain secret overtures recently made by Dictator Count Stephen Bethlen to Rumania with a view to enlisting that country's aid in wresting back all Czechoslovakia's once Hungarian territory, including Bratislava. "The Rumanian Government have loyally revealed these facts to us," President Masaryk was declared to have concluded, "But . . . we still prefer to achieve a friendly agreement with Hungary...