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Royalist Count Anton Sigray solemnly assured the docile Parliament that the Hungarian State had always been based on democratic principles, always pursued a democratic policy "in the best meaning of the word. The Hungarian kingdom must be restored," he added amid cheers. "Restoration would bring about a solidification and pacification ... of the whole southeastern European sphere...
...First Hungarian move toward a more stable southeast: a vague offer to return all lands snatched from Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia at the beginning of the war.* In the same breath there was a reminder that the southern part of Transylvania "rightfully" belonged to Hungary. Second Hungarian move: preparation for general mobilization. Plainly the Magyars who still dream of Greater Hungary intended to be ready to move swiftly in any melee that might develop in the wake of the war. Over German protests, all but three Hungarian divisions were withdrawn from the Russian front. Premier Nicholas Kallay recently observed: "We must...
...Arpad's pen-&-ink father is 46-year-old Bill Pause (real name: Pause-wang), a greying, soft-spoken staff artist. Where Arpad's name originally came from no one knows for sure. A town mentioned in the Bible has the name Arpad. So has a Hungarian national hero...
...Budapest Quartet comes from Budapest. Only one of the four (first violinist Josef Roismann) has ever even visited the city. All are Russians. To the Quartet, this fact has become a continual embarrassment. Wherever they go, they are likely to be welcomed in fluent Magyar by effusive groups of Hungarians. The Quartet knows plenty of Hungarian music, but no Magyar...
...original Budapest Quartet, which toured Europe and the U.S. in the 1920s, was as 100% Hungarian as goulash. By 1927 its second fiddler left and a Russian took his place. By 1932 there was not a Hungarian left. Today the four are 43-year-old first violinist Josef Roismann from Odessa; 35-year-old second violinist Alexander Schneider from Vilna; 43-year-old violist Boris Kroyt from Odessa; 39-year-old cellist Mischa Schneider, brother of Alexander...