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Last month Hungary's Premier Bela Imrédy, speaking at his home town of Baja, declared he had not one drop of Jewish blood in his veins, showed baptismal certificates of his grandparents to prove it. This was his answer to a widespread whispering campaign that the Premier, author of severe anti-Semitic bills introduced recently in the Hungarian Parliament, was himself part Jewish...
...author of this how-dy-do was one of the founders of the brash, short-lived Yale Harkness Hoot; at 21 wrote Challenge to Defeat, slapping the face of depression pessimists. In Hannibal Hooker, his first novel, he breezes past all moral and religious stop-signs. He is, in brief, a daring young man, and his agility on literary trapezes is breathtaking. But after his stunts are over, it is not quite clear what all the squirming and leaping were about...
...Baron Bessenyei-Bakach, was quietly tending another iron which the hard-headed Admiral has in another fire. In Bled, Yugoslavia, the Baron was attending a meeting of the Little Entente (Czechoslovakia, Yugoslavia, Rumania), satellites of France. There on behalf of Regent and Hungarian Premier Béla Imrédy, the Baron "agreed in principle" to a pact whereby: 1) Hungary would be relieved of her obligation under the Treaty of Trianon (1919) not to rearm; 2) Hungary and the Little Entente would refrain from employing force of any kind against one another; 3) the Little Entente would speedily arrange...
Before leaving Berlin, Premier Imrédy explained to the German press that the real purpose of the "informal agreement" at Bled was to get concessions for Hungarian minorities in neighboring states. This neatly absolved Admiral Horthy of double dealing while he was accepting Hitler's hospitality, made it appear that he was trying to do the same thing as his host, get minority concessions out of Czechoslovakia...
...Only thing to do was to make a face-saving announcement that Italy and Hungary now constitute a bipod as faithful as ever to the Fascist cooperative spirit, and for this purpose to Rome last week went Hungary's economic strongman, Banker-Premier Béla Imrédy, who had never before met Mussolini...