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...hrer waited. Russian soldiers plunging toward the Carpathians had made the summons urgent. Briefly, now, and harshly, Hitler outlined his demands: the time had come to "coordinate" Germany's eager little ally. Full military occupation would be necessary, and a more tractable government; henceforth, too, more Hungarian workers for German industry, more Hungarian food for German mouths, would be required. Hungary, in short, was within the inner fortress (Festung Deutschland now, not Festung Europa); the time to play at being a sovereign ally had gone...
Fading Light. The 75-year-old regent for a nonexistent king, the admiral of a nonexistent fleet, stood with his host at the outsize picture window, looking down toward Salzburg and the Ostmark, once called Austria. It was in the Austro-Hungarian Navy before World War I that horse-loving Horthy got his admiral's stripes. It was from the hands of this onetime fellow subject of Kaiser Franz Josef that Horthy got the territorial plums which had made World War II so far so profitable. As he listened now to the Führer's rasping voice...
...Hungarians' Choice. About a week before, Czechoslovakia's Moscow-wise President Benes had suddenly observed out loud that in his opinion Russia would favor Rumania's regaining bleak potato lands of northern Transylvania. To hardy, Russia-hating Magyars, this preference for spineless, graft-ridden Rumanians was the last straw. As the Nazis clamped down on Hungary, hitherto their most obliging satellite, the landowning lords of the Hungarian plain toyed with a desperate plan: to strike into Rumania before the Russians could cross Bessarabia...
Caught in Austria by World War I, he unwillingly served in the Austro-Hungarian infantry, was nearly sentenced to death for "political unreliability." When the Old Man became the head of the state, Jan's spirit of adventure had to be channeled into more representative endeavors. He worked in the Prague Foreign Office, as chargé d'affaires in Washington, as Dr. Benes' private secretary, in the Czech legation in London. From 1925 until he resigned in protest against the Munich deal, he was Czechoslovak envoy to the Court of St. James's. In a dinner...
Political Sophisticate. But intense, Hungarian-born Anna Rosenberg is on her way as a master politician. She began politicking at 17 at Wadleigh High, a girls' school where she managed to head up-and off-a strictly masculine rebellion against compulsory military training for high-school students. But she later learned the trade all the way from Tammany ward heeling to the Governor's mansion. Years ago she learned that high-sounding central Government jobs may involve more politics than production-or praise...