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Britain's growing audacity. In London Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden invited Hungarian Minister Georges de Barcza to pay him a call. Mr. Eden suavely ticked off Hungary with "sympathetic understanding" of Hungary's embarrassing position-but he warned that if Britain wins the war Hungary will pay. By week's end the pre-war Rumanian-British friendship had run its course to overt enmity. After the rupture of diplomatic relations (TIME, Feb. 17) the British Board of Trade announced that all goods of Rumanian origin, destination or ownership henceforth would be considered enemy contraband...
Unlike her fellow Hungarian, Princess Stephanie Hohenlohe-Waldenbourg-Schillingsfurst, whose deportation from the U. S. is imminent, Lady Howard worked tirelessly after break of World War II knitting comforts for sailors, organizing bridge-party drives to buy Spitfire planes for the defense of Britain. Said estranged Lord Howard: "Lady Howard has done nothing but help people and work for people. . . . There is no one more English than she is. ... Whether she has any political interests I don't know."¶ The Rome radio took quick advantage of the fact that British officials kept secret the reason for the arrest...
...past 48 hours and estimated 100 German transport planes carrying a total of perhaps 10,000 troops into Rumania and toward Bulgaria have passed over the Hungarian capital...
...swarthy, little Magyar, with almond eyes, bristling, black mustache and sensuous lips that spat Hungarian, German, French, English, Italian, Spanish and Russian with the staccato speed of a Browning machine gun, died in Budapest last week. He was 46-year-old Count Stephen Csáky, Hungarian Minister of Foreign Affairs, in whose aristocratic veins flowed the blood of Hungary's unscrupulous, wheedling past. Assured of a career by virtue of birth, Count Csáky became Europe's foremost professional in the art of diplomatic tightrope-walking even after the rope had become a Balkan tangle...
Died. Joe Penner (real name: Joseph Pinter), 36, Hungarian-born radio, stage and screen comic who gained fame a few years ago by his inane radiululations ("Wanna buy a duck?" "You nasty man!"); of heart disease; in Philadelphia, where week ago he had assumed the leading role in the musical show Yokel...