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...Hungarian antifascist, Habe enlisted in France's 21st Foreign Volunteers at the outbreak of the war. In May 1940 his regiment, stationed in Alsace, was ordered west. In Ardennes they held the front entrusted to them for three weeks, then joined the general retreat. A little south of Domrémy, on June 21, they received orders to lay down their arms; France had sued for armistice. Habe was then captured by Germans, was imprisoned with 22,000 other troops at Dieuze, escaped in August into Unoccupied France...
...After seven months' warning, and over the shrill protest of Japanese Ambassador Itaso Ishii, Brazil suppressed all foreign-language newspapers. Thirteen were German, two Italian, three Japanese, one Spanish, six English, eight Arabic, two Jewish, one Polish, one Hungarian...
Although Schubert was a short, dumpy, shuffling little man, Alan Curtis plays him as a trim, handsome, curly-haired lad with a nose for conviviality and an eye for a pretty woman (Ilona Massey). They meet on the Hungarian sheep ranch she manages for a dizzy countess. They part when she decides that it will be best for his music if he goes it alone...
...friend of theirs, now also put out a warrant for his arrest, on grounds of stealing documents "affecting the security of the French State." (They were really photostat copies of police reports on De Gaullist and Cormmunist activities in France, for which he had paid a young Hungarian journalist, now in a Vichy clink, about...
...Berlin announced that Hungarian Communist Bela Kun had been taken prisoner by counter-revolutionary Ukrainians. (Last previous report on Bela Kun was that he had been purged in Russia in 1939.) Another from Berlin: Reichstag Fire-famed Georgi Dimitroff would soon be named special Soviet emissary...