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Last week as Count Csaky kept silent, opposition parties tried to make capital of Hungary's alarm, to smoke Count Csaky out. Said Tibor Eckhardt, head of the Independent Agrarian Party: "Our Foreign Minister once said that we had to demonstrate our loyalty to friendly countries in difficult times. I agree with him, but this loyalty must extend to all our friends. If . . . a German-Polish conflict breaks out, under no circumstances can we interfere." Then he challenged the Government-"Admiral Hoi thy pledged Hungary to independence and neutrality, let the Foreign Minister repeat the pledge...
...picturesque feature of pre-War Hungary still survives in that country- the love of dueling. Last year even the late Premier Julius Gömbös realized that honor could not be satisfied until he and the man with whom he had quarreled, Deputy Tibor Eckhardt, had trudged into a gloomy cavalry shed and each had fired a shot over the other's head...
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...
...graduate of the Military Training School for Gymnastics & Fencing, a member of the Hungarian military elite, a crack swordsman and pistol shot, wounded and decorated in the War and now a Field Marshal. The Hungarian military code of honor demanded that Soldier Gömbös give Civilian Eckhardt satisfaction, as he has already done for many another man. But Politician Gömbös, as realistic as he is vain, might be seriously compromised by a duel. For as Premier it is his uncongenial duty to enforce the Hungarian law against duelling...
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...